Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Castleroan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleroan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.89688, -7.89680
- SMR number
- OF047-010001-
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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 on N facing slope of rising ground in upland area. Unusual castle consisting of a Polygonal shaped area (diam. 35m) enclosed by a roughly coursed mortared wall of rubble masonry with musket opes visible and the wall foundations of two possible house sites in the S sector of the bawn. One of these buildings may have been the site of a castle (OF047-010002-). Externally the bawn is enclosed by a wide flat berm (Wth 12m) delimited by a wide deep fosse (max. Wth 6.7m; base Wth 2.5m) with causewayed stone line entrance (Wth 3.5m) to E. Modern road intersects outer defences at N. Possibly the site of a medieval bawn with tower house (now destroyed) built on top of an earlier earthwork. Site may have given its name to the townland Castleroan. Polygonal shaped bawn is similar to the bawn at Ballinlough Tower house (OF046-020----). Depicted as Caiseal Roan on the Down Survey (1655-6) (Loeber 1988 vol. 2, 26).
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: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
- House - prehistoricunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.