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Bawn

Ardmayle, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Ardmayle, 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
Ardmayle
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ardmayle Castle (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Ardmayle Castle (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.56657, -7.92259
SMR number
TS052-034012-

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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 a platform on a break of a W-facing slope. The River Suir flows NE-SW 50m to the NW, in undulating pastureland. An earthwork 'Forte Edward' (TS052-034001-) is clearly visible c. 200m to the ESE. A large rectangular bawn (dims. c. 120m N-S; c. 50m E-W) of limestone rubble roughly coursed with a fortified house (TS052-034011-) roughly centrally placed in the interior (20.7m from the W side of the bawn and 14m from the E side of the bawn) on an earthen platform defined by scarp which runs E-W 31.2m N of the fortified house and curves southward 8.8m E of the house. The E wall (max. H 3.65m; T 0.8m) is the best preserved, towards the N end there is a entrance (Wth 2.92m) with piers that project internally (N pier Wth 0.98m; D 0.23m; S pier Wth 0.81m), though there is no draw-bar hole. On the S side of the entrance, in the interior, there is evidence of an internal structure (ext. dims. 6.55m N-S; wall T 0.64m), possibly a guard-house. The southern portion of the W wall (max. H c. 4m; T c. 1-1.4m) is the best preserved, with an entrance opposite the fortified house towards the river. The S side is broken out, the present gap is 4.2m wide, approximately a metre wider than the original entrance, as the draw-bar hole (Wth 0.16m; H 0.17m) on the N side is 3.15m deep. S of this by 15.7m and approx. 18m from the SW angle, there are internal steps, broken out, in the thickness of the wall probably giving access to a wall-walk. At the S end of the W wall there is evidence of later buildings built up against the external face of the wall, with inserted fireplaces and chimney flues. Only 4.5m of the W wall survives N of the entrance, ending in an internally splaying embrasure, probably for a gun-loop. Sections of the S wall survive, including the SW angle but the NW angle is gone and a modern wall (L 8.5m) runs along the line of the eastern end of the S wall. A length (17.5m) of the western end of the N wall survives, elsewhere a modern wall has been built on the line of the eastern half of this bawn wall and the NW and NE angles do not survive.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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

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