Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cloncourse (Clandonagh By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloncourse (Clandonagh By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloncourse Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.96361, -7.67558
- SMR number
- LA015-021001-
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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)
- 1811 · 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
Four storey high fortified house (LA015-021) built with roughly coursed rubble with projecting tower in centre of S wall. Chimney stacks on the E and W gables. N wall destroyed. Fireplaces in E gable at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floor level. Rectangular shaped windows constructed with chamfered limestone. Machicolation on the top level over doorway. Three water-spouts projecting from the top of the S wall. Remains of a rectangular shaped bawn with outbuildings in the NE angle. Splayed gunloops present. Remains of gate house in centre of S wall.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.