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Bawn

Knockagh (Drom Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Knockagh (Drom Par.), County Tipperary North, 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
Knockagh (Drom Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Knockagh Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.77844, -7.87077
SMR number
TN029-059004-

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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

Situated on a low SE-facing slope in undulating countryside with ringforts (TN029-056, TN029-058) to the N and a destroyed seventeenth-century house (TN029-059002) to the S. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'one old castle inhabited yett wanting repaire a broken bawne and the ruins of a stone house' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 58). Sir John Morres is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). A late sixteenth/seventeenth-century circular tower house (TN029-059001) built with roughly coursed rubble surviving five storeys high with attic above. The main entrance is via a destroyed two-centred doorway at W giving access to a lobby protected by an overhead murder-hole. The OS Letters describe a bawn wall with corner towers and a late seventeenth-century house (TN029-059002) immediately S of the castle, of which no traces survive (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 184).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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