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Bawn

Killeedy North, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Killeedy North, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Killeedy North
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Dotted outline
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured (1924)
Coordinates
52.38310, -9.07321
SMR number
LI044-099001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Ireland 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture overlooking a stream to S, with the ruins of Killeedy Castle (LI044-099002-) in the centre. The ruins of Killeedy Church (LI044-101001-), graveyard (LI044-101002-) and St Ida's Well (LI044-101003-) lie 120m to SSE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a raised sub-rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 23m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) defined by a fosse. Visited by the ASI in 1997 and described as ‘a raised sub-rectangular-shaped mound (dims. 20m NW-SE; 13m NE-SW) enclosed by a bank (Wth 2.5m, H 2m) from W-N-E with the fallen masonry in W. The interior is hollow in the centre where the ruins of Killeedy castle (LI047-099002-) are located. A gap (Wth 2.6m) in the bank at ENE may be the result of livestock erosion’. Overgrown outline of monument is visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. Could be the remains of a collapsed earth and stone bawn enclosing Killeedy Castle.

See attached Google Earth orthoimages.

Compiled by: Martin Fitzpatrick

Date of upload: 26 August 2021

References

ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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