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Bawn

Clonbeg, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Clonbeg, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonbeg
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.04316, -7.87192
SMR number
OF038-019002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

No surface trace visible of Clonbeg Castle (OF038-019001-) which belonged to the O'Carroll's (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, 31). Modern farmbuildings and silage pit have been built on the site of the castle. Depicted as a small rectangular castle within the W quadrant of a possible circular enclosure or earthen bawn within a grove of trees on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This enclosing feature is depicted as a roughly square-shaped area defined by two earthen banks with an intervening wide fosse on the revised 1908 ed. OS 25-inch map. On this map the enclosing element is only visible on the E and S sides of the castle. A linear bank runs NW off the E side of the enclosure which sub-divides the interior of the bawn. No enclosing element of the bawn is indicated on the W and N sides of the castle.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 30 December 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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