Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Maidstown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Maidstown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.43781, -8.61206
- SMR number
- LI039-074001-
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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
Ballyvenoge (Baile Bheanóg) Castle (LI039-074----) and bawn in the townland of Maidstown (Baile Bheanóg). The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that in 1641 John Fox of Ballyvenoge was the owner of 'a good castle, a Bawne, an orchard, & indifferent houses' (Simington 1938, 124). The precise location of the bawn has not been identified but may have been located to the N of the tower house (LI039-074----).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 29 April 2021
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – 346/21 on 05/01/2003.
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.
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.