Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Gortnaclea, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortnaclea
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.92598, -7.46433
- SMR number
- LA023-016001-
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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
In an elevated position West of the Gully River. A five storey tower house (LA023-016) with evidence of the line of a destroyed bawn wall to N and W of tower house.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.