Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Milltown (louth By.), County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (louth By.)
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93309, -6.42600
- SMR number
- LH012-061002-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The remains of the bawn wall associated with the tower house (LH012-061001-) can clearly be seen in the modern farm buildings. Its N wall fronts onto the roadway while the W portion returns from it and joins onto the NW angle of the tower house. The masonry of the SE angle has been broken to a height of c. 2.8m above the ground, which is about the same height as that of the remaining bawn wall at the N side. It would therefore appear that the bawn wall originally also joined the castle at the SE angle. A modern N-S wall which bounds the present grounds of the house appears to occupy the line of the original E wall of the bawn.
The above description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 19 April 2012
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.