Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Annagh (kilbarron Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annagh (kilbarron Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.95938, -8.25576
- SMR number
- TN009-036002-
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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 rock outcrop on high ground in an upland area overlooking Annagh Lake to the SW and Lough Derg to the W. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle the walls onely standing' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 306). John Hurly is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.).Wall-footings of a possible bawn wall (TN009-036003) project out from the SE angle of the tower house (TN009-036001) and return onto the destroyed NW angle.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.