Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Ballynasrah Or Tinnycross, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynasrah Or Tinnycross
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hollow House on site of Castle
- Coordinates
- 53.30682, -7.46960
- SMR number
- OF009-023001-
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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
An early Georgian farmhouse is situated on the site of a castle of which only the bawn survives. The four circular angle towers along with part of the bawn wall appear to date from the seventeenth century. The round arched gateway with triangular pediment and spiral finials appear to belong to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century and were built after the castle was destroyed probably by the occupants of the ruinous farmhouse. The back wall of this cottage is part of the earlier bawn wall of 17th centurydate. Probable plantation castle (OF009-023----) of 17th centurydate with large rectangular bawn wall with four corner flanking towers. The wall and angle towers are defended with gun loops that provided flanking fire along the outer face of all four walls of the bawn.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.