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Bawn

Carrahil, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Carrahil, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Carrahil
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.92774, -8.90143
SMR number
CL026-018002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low-lying peninsula at the NW angle of Inchicronan Lough attached to the W shore. Not listed in the SMR (1992) or the RMP (1996). An overgrown bawn (72m NNE-SSW; 25m WNW-ESE) defined by a wall of uncoursed limestone with an external batter (Wth 1.4m; max. ext. H 3.6m at NW). There is a destroyed gateway (Wth 3m) at the N end of the W side with the base of inturned walls on each side (L 6m). There is a draw-bar socket (L 1.2m) on the NE side of the gateway. There is no clear evidence of the castle (CL026-018001-) but the bawn contains more recent buildings, including the foundations of a rectangular structure (int. dims. 11m NW-SE; 5.5m NE-SW) against the NW wall of the bawn, and a lime-kiln at the centre.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 2 May 2017

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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