Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Haynestown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Haynestown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.21942, -6.58714
- SMR number
- KD019-027----
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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
Near the top of a short, moderately steep, SE-facing slope in improved pasture. The foundation walls of a rectangular bawn (dims. L c. 50m; Wth c. 25m) containing the foundation walls of a building were noted in 1940 (SMR File). While no surface traces of these features survive, the remains of a gateway still stand at the SW corner. This is a round-arched, rectangular masonry structure (Wth 2.57m; H 3.46m) with bolt/hinge sockets on each side, inside the outer ashlar jambs. There is an internal flat arch, which is pierced by a small hole (dims. L 0.3m; Wth 0.2m), possibly a murder hole, on the underside of which wicker centring is visible. A very short length (L 0.73m) of the W wall of the bawn extends N from the gateway. The monument is leaning uphill, c. 10 degrees away from the vertical.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.