Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Aghalahard, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aghalahard
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55609, -9.29890
- SMR number
- MA120-024001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District records a ‘polygonal shaped bawn with square turrets’ which encloses a tower house (MA120-024----) in the SW corner and a later building (MA120-024002-) in the SE corner. The bawn ‘rebuilt in a number of places, contains three gun loops in an embrasure W of tower house.’ (Lavelle 1994, 106, no. 703). National Monument no. 243
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 15 October 2014
References
Lavelle, D. 1994 An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association.
Nearby in the register
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.