Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Drumdoe, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumdoe
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.03505, -8.29607
- SMR number
- RO003-012001-
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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
A castle of Mac Dermot Roe on the E shore of Lough Arrow, c. 30m from the lake. The remains of the three-storey fortified house (RO003-012----) survive at the SE angle of the bawn (int. dims. 28m E-W; 19m N-S), which lacks its W wall but which has fragments of a gatehouse on the S wall.
The N and E bawn walls survive almost intact (H 3-3.5m; T 1m) with six gun-loops in the N wall and six in the E wall, but with no evidence of a wall-walk or parapet. The foundations (H 1-1.3m; T 1m) of a circular tower (int. diam. 3.9m) entered directly from the bawn and with one surviving gun-loop are at the NW angle. Towards the W end of the S wall is the gatehouse (RO003-012002-), with one surviving gun-loop. The possible motte (RO003-022----) is c. 115m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.