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Bawn

Grallagh (Graystown Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Grallagh (Graystown Par.), 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
Grallagh (Graystown Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.59488, -7.77102
SMR number
TS053-012002-

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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 gentle NE-facing slope in wet undulating pastureland. Farmhouse located SW of tower house, separated from tower house by modern concrete and stone wall which extends around NW and S of bawn. The Civil Survey (1654-6) describe the lands of Grallagh as having 'a good castle on them with a bawne & some few Tents. & Cabbins' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 244). Thomas Butler of Kilconnel is listed as proprietor in 1640 (ibid.). Original bawn running N-S E of tower house (TS053-012001-). The surviving length of bawn wall (T 1.54-1.6m) runs N-S at a distance of 11.4m from the E angle of the tower house and 19.2m from the N angle, it also forms the boundary with the public road which runs N-S. It is 35.8m long and max. H of 3.4m. There are seven reconstructed gun loops, including two double gun loops. They range in height from 0.35-0.65m above external ground level, those at the N end of the bawn being lower. Where the gun embrasures survive they are flat-arched with wide internal splays, the width of the internal embrasures range from 0.47-1.7m and the space between the gun embrasures ranges from 1.55-2.78m. The most southerly loop is blocked up internally.

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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