Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Cragg, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cragg
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.73930, -8.42924
- SMR number
- TN031-048002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 in an upland area with extensive views. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as 'the walls of a castle and a Barbicon' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 179). John Ryan is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Present remains consist of a rectangular tower house (TN031-048001) three storeys high built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble with a high pronounced base-batter. Nineteenth-century outhouses now obscure a possible bawn area (TN031-048002) located to the N and W of the tower.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.