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Bawn

Clonamondra, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Clonamondra, 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
Clonamondra
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.64530, -7.58745
SMR number
TS049-003001-

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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

On flat level grassland with good views in all directions. Poorly preserved remains of a circular area (int. diam. 26m NW-SE; 20m NE-SW) enclosed by an earth and stone bank (top Wth 2.5m; base Wth 4m; int. 1m; ext. H 1m), inner fosse (base Wth 2.5m; top Wth 5m; ext. D 0.7m) and outer bank (top Wth 2m; base Wth 3.5m; ext. H 0.5m) only visible from NW through N to E elsewhere the inner bank has been reduced to a scarp and the fosse and outer bank are destroyed. A modern roadway up to Clonamondra Cottage intersects site at S on a NW-SE axis destroying the outer bank and fosse along this side. There is the spoil heap of a quarry in the S quadrant of the enclosure. There is no clear entrance feature visible, modern gap in bank at SE (Wth 5m). The wall-footings of long rectangular building (TS049-003---) run NW-SE off the inner face of the bank at NW. These could be the wall-footings of an early medieval hall or a later fortified house with the enclosure acting as a bailey or bawn. The mounument is depicted on the OS 6-inch map as a mound enclosed by a fosse. Some years ago some bulldozing was carried out at the site, this mound may have been the grassed over remains of collapsed rubble from the rectangularl building, the wall-footings of which survived the partial land clearance.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 May 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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