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Bawn

Graiguepadeen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Graiguepadeen, County Tipperary South, 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
Graiguepadeen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.70582, -7.62724
SMR number
TS042-018001-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

There is no mention of a castle or bawn in Graiguepadeen in the Civil Survey (1654-6) when Pierce Butler of Callan, Co. Kilkenny is listed as proprietor of the lands in 1640 (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 121). It is situated on top of natural rock outcrop at the N end of a N-S ridge with good extensive views in all directions. The bawn (ext. dims. N-S 11m x E-W 8m; wall T 1.3m) is located S of an L-plan fortified house (TS042-018----). There are concrete walls constructed up against the inner face of the S wall of the bawn. The bawn wall projects westward from the NW angle of the house for a distance of 2.95m and returns southward for a distance of 11m and then E for a distance of 8m but elsewhere it is destroyed. The bawn wall probably returned onto the external E face of the house to the N of the main ground-floor doorway or onto the NE angle of the house. The N side of the house may not have been enclosed by the bawn but was possibly afforded some protection by the natural fall of ground on this side.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

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

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