Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cill Damhnait, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cill Damhnait
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.88091, -9.94597
- SMR number
- MA065-025002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (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
Enclosing Kildavnet Castle, a 15th-century tower house (MA065-025001-). Fragmentary remains of a bawn wall can be seen 1.6m out from the walls of the tower house at the WNW and NNE sides. It is better preserved at the WNW side (max. H 1m: Wth. 0.8m), where there is a circular angle tower, from which there is a return to the W angle of the tower house.
This is a National Monument in State ownership (No. 458).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 18 June 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Slipwayunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.