Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Castlejordan, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlejordan
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39611, -7.11393
- SMR number
- ME052-004002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the valley of the Castlejordan River with a NNE-SSW section of the stream c. 50m to the SE. Extending WSW from the fortified house (ME052-004----) is a bawn wall (L c. 40m; T 1.2m; H c. 4m), overgrown with ivy and with some breaks, probably where dressed stone has been removed from embrasures. The tower house (ME052-005----) is c. 60m to the SW of the fortified house and may have occupied the SW angle of the bawn, but no traces of the bawn wall are associated with it and a later walled garden (dims c. 75m ENE-WSW; c. 35m NNW-SSE) occupies much of the area of the bawn.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 August, 2016
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.