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Bawn

Hartwell Upper, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Hartwell Upper, County Kildare, 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
Hartwell Upper
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.23514, -6.58757
SMR number
KD019-015001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

Stands near the W-foot of a low spur overlooking the small, NW-flowing, Hartwell River immediately to the W, in an area of good quality, mixed pasture and tillage. The partially levelled and altered remains of a very large area (dims. L 90m ESE-WNW; Wth 46m) are defined by a mortared wall (int. H 4m; T 0.9m) of undressed, roughly coursed shale blocks and flags on the N and E and along the E-half of the S, and by an outer fosse (Wth 3-4m) on the N. A small, square, rubble-filled, projecting corner tower (ext. dims. L 3.9m; Wth 3.7m; int. H 2m; wall T 0.7m) survives at the W end of the N wall. Later stables and farm buildings abut the inner faces of the walls. The enclosed area is bisected on its short axis by the castle (KD019-015----). Conroy (2007, 187-93) suggests the site was a monastic grange belonging to St Thomas' Abbey, from possibly as early as the late-14th c.

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Date of upload: 10 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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