Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cloghaun (Loughrea By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghaun (Loughrea By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.14643, -8.69145
- SMR number
- GA114-056001-
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a tower house (GA114-056----). This modern or mainly modern rectangular bawn wall (20m N-S; 18.6m; H c. 2.5m), complete with an arched gateway in the NW wall and a low circular turret at the NW corner, surrounds the tower house.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 20 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.