Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Carrickanass, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickanass
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.24116, -9.29183
- SMR number
- MA014-057001-
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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
Situated at the base of a SSW facing hillside, on the N bank of the Carn River. The ‘castle [MA014-057----] and bawn of Carricknassy’ are listed in the17th-century Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo (O’Sullivan 1958). They were extant in the late 18th- and early 19th-century when McParlan (1802, 133) described the castle as ‘square of thirty feet [c. 9m], about forty-five feet [c. 14m], high surrounded by a strong bawn nine feet [2.75m] high, built by Burke family’. By 1838 the castle had been demolished but O’Donovan recorded ‘there remains still a part, I should suppose, of the wall belonging to the bawn or enclosure.' (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 272 (141-2). No remains now visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 4 February 2015
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Mayo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1838. Bray.
McParlan, J. 1802 Statistical Survey of the county of Mayo. Graisberry and Campbell. Dublin.
O'Sullivan, W. 1958 The Strafford Inquisition of County Mayo. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.