Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Rockstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rockstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56737, -8.55722
- SMR number
- LI022-108001-
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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
Ballynacarrig or Rockstown Castle (LI022-108----) situated on top of natural rock outcrop the edge of which may have been fortified with a bawn wall (approx. diam. 60m). The Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Captain George Ingoldesbly, an English proprietor, in 1640 was in possession of 'one castle and Bawen thereunto belonginge' (Simington 1938, 81). Traces of a possible enclosure or bawn wall is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 03 January 2019
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.