Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Ballymurreen, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymurreen
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballymurreen castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.63258, -7.74729
- SMR number
- TN048-016002-
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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 flat pasture in undulating countryside with a nearby church (TN048-015) to the W. Described in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as an 'old castle and Bawne out of repaire' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 67). Described in the OS Letters as a small two-storey gabled building with a large fireplace and a chimney in the N wall which according to local tradition was the kitchen of the castle (TN048-016001) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 90-91). No visible remains of the castle (TN048-016002) and bawn at ground level. They were probably replaced by the nineteenth-century house and modern outhouses.
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 - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.