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Bawn

Castlecoote, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Castlecoote, County Roscommon, 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
Castlecoote
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.61647, -8.29132
SMR number
RO039-061010-

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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

Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house (RO039-061002-) and bawn at the site of Malby's fortified house (RO039-061001-) after 1616. Situated on a rise on the S bank of the W-E River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E.
The bawn (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) surrounded the house, but nothing remains of it apart from the NE and SE towers which were part of Malby's house, mirrored by a featureless and poorly built hexagonal tower at the NW angle. The foundations of the SW tower and the W wall (T c. 1.6m) of the bawn were uncovered c. 1960 (Connellan 1962-3), and there is a well, recently conserved, ouside the NW angle of the bawn.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Connellan, A.M.J. 1962-3 Ballygeraghty and Castlecoote. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 30, 3-6.

Nearby in the register

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

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