Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Bunratty East, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunratty East
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.69690, -8.81195
- SMR number
- CL062-001009-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
According to Wiggins (2000), citing Share (1995, 180-82), excavations took place in the vicinity of the castle between 1964 and 1967, directed for the Office of Public Works by Marcus ó hEochaidh, but the results have never been published. Sherlock (2011, 214-15) notes that evidence for a 17th-century bawn wall and a second, earlier bawn was found in these excavations and that the present bawn wall was built upon foundations which were found during the excavation.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 8 October 2019
References
Wiggins, K. 2000 Development at Bunratty West, Co. Clare: archaeological impact assessment with test excavation 00E0288. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.