Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Rathnaleen North, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathnaleen North
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathnaleen Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.87352, -8.17186
- SMR number
- TN021-025002-
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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 a N-facing slope in pasture. A ruinous tower house (TN021-025001) with only a length of the E wall surviving, constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble with some conglomerate stones. The wall-footings continue N for a further 4m. A pile of collapsed masonry lies west of this wall. The E and W wall (H 6.7m) and part of the S wall were still standing when visited by the OS c. 1840, internal diam. E-W 7m (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 201). A bawn (dims. 52.5m N-S; 51m E-W) to the S of the building is defined by a shallow, broad bank (Wth c. 6m) sloping gently to the exterior and almost level with the interior. The E return is not clear. Foundations of a building along the N bank of the bawn may be the remains of a gatehouse.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.