Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Kilcoursey, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoursey
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcoursey Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.34067, -7.59996
- SMR number
- OF008-016001-
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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
Located on top of a hill with good extensive views in all directions. The hill is steeply sloped at S which may have acted as a natural form of defence for the castle (OF008-016----). The tower house is built of roughly coursed limestone rubble and was originally three storeys high however the second floor is now destroyed with evidence of a wall walk surviving at NE corner. The bawn wall runs from the SW corner in a W direction and rejoins the Tower house on its NE corner thus defending the original doorway which is now destroyed but was located at the centre of the N wall. The musket loops on the castle at ground floor were located on the S and E walls which indicates that these walls were not protected by a bawn wall.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.