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Bawn

Courtstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Courtstown, County Kilkenny, 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
Courtstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.65299, -7.45928
SMR number
KK018-028002-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On a SSE-facing slope in an area of wet marshy ground. There is a good view to the NW-N-NE, otherwise poor. It is possible that Courtstown castle (KK018-028001-) was located within the interior of this roughly square enclosure, possibly a much denuded bawn (int. dims. c. 65m N-S; c. 60m E-W). A castle with square bawn is indicated on the Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Cranagh and on the Down Survey parish map of Tullohan (Hibernia Regnum, courtesy of Trinity College Dublin).
The roughly square enclosure is define on the N and E side by a substantial external earth and stone bank (int. H 2.1m; ext. H 1.7m, Wth 7.6m) and waterlogged fosse (Wth 2.5m) and on the W side there is a short length of internal bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1m; Wth 3.8m). There is a causewayed entrance (Wth 2m) on the N side. Near the NW angle there is a opening broken through by cattle. The interior is very wet and marshy and the bank is heavily overgrown with beech, hawthorns, holly and ivy.

See attached images:
KK018-028002-_02 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) barony map of Cranagh (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)
KK018-028002-_03 extract from Down Survey (1655-6) parish map of Tullohan (Hib. Reg., courtesy of Trinity College Dublin)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 16 December 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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