Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Courtstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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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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
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.