Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Causeway
Bawn (moydow By.), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawn (moydow By.)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bawn Castle & Nunnery (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.67707, -7.76766
- SMR number
- LF019-005004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located at the E angle of the filled-in moat of the castle (LF019-005002-) is a drystone wall causeway (Wth 4m) with small square culvert-like opening to allow the water of the moat flow through the wall. This causeway appears to be contemporary with the drystone field wall to the E and also with the destroyed house known as 'Bawn House' to the SW. This house dates from the 18th/early 19th century and it is likely that the causeway dates from the same period. It does not appear to be contemporaneous with the late medieval castle (LF019-005002-).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.