Bawn

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on rock outcrop in a mountainous region with a nearby house site (TN034-025005) to the S and a ringwork (TN034-025004) to the NE. The poorly preserved remains of a two-storey with attic, gable-ended, single-pile, L-plan, seventeenth-century house (TN034-025001) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. It appears to be a two-roomed house with a projecting angle tower at the W angle. The NE gable is destroyed along with the E end of the SE wall. There is an irregular-shaped bawn area (dims. 50m N-S) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) with a possible entrance gap at SE. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as a 'castle and the walls of a stone house and some thatcht cabbins' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 89). Richard Bourke is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.)..

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