Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Onomy, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Onomy
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.11853, -6.73082
- SMR number
- MO020-018001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope which overlooks White Island and the N end of Muckno Lough. Sir Edward Blayney built a fortified house (MO020-018----) after 1612 on land he had been granted in Cremonrne barony at Ballylurgan, also known as Ballifort. A contemporary description describes how he ‘hath buylte a very large bawn w'th lyme and stone 18 foote high, well flanked w'th bulworkes upon his land of Ballinelungan… Upon the bawne is buylte a fayre gate house and two other houses of lyme and stone upon two of the corners of the bawn w'ch flankes the whole work. They containe two or three roomes or lodginges a pice w'th chimneys;’ Inside the bawn he buit a ‘fayre and spacious house’ (Shirley 1879, 241; Hunter 1975 81-2). The precise location of the house and bawn is not known, but Coote (1801, 91) says the new house which was built in 1799 was contiguous to the old one.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 29 June 2018
References
Coote, C. 1801 Statistical survey of the county of Monaghan. Dublin. Graisberry and Campbell.
Hunter, R.J. 1975 Carews survey of Ulster, 1611: the voluntary works. Ulster Journal of Archaeology Ser. 3, 38, 81-2.
Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.