Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Drumcondra, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcondra
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Drumcondra Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.19799, -8.39042
- SMR number
- SL021-068001-
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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
On the top of a gravel knoll (c. 80m E-W; c. 60m N-S) surrounded by bog and reclaimed grassland. The knoll is approached via a causeway (L c. 30m; Wth c. 4m; H c. 0.8m) from the SE. On top of the knoll is a rectangular bawn (20m N-S; 26m E-W) with fragmentary remains of a tower (SL021-068----) at its SW corner and a gateway near the S end of its E wall. The bawn gateway is situated near the S end of the E side, overlooking the causeway. Only the S side of the gateway opening survives; there is no indication of a structure inside but the ground level dips steeply down towards the opening. Flanking the gateway is a single gun loop on either side. There are no other apparent features on the bawn wall though stretches of it have been repaired and rebuilt in the recent past.
Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.