Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Bawn (tullyhunco By.), County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawn (tullyhunco By.)
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01155, -7.54510
- SMR number
- CV019-006----
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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
A turreted house and bawn, possibly in Scottish baronial style, was supposedly built here in the post-Plantation period by Sir Claude Hamilton. No visible remains at ground level.The precise location of this feature is not known. (Davies 1948, 123-24)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
References
Davies, O. 1948 The castles of county Cavan, Part 2. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 11, 80-126.
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.