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Bawn

Slainstown North, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Slainstown North, 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
Slainstown North
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.49689, -7.67649
SMR number
TS062-122003-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 flat-topped ridge running N-S in undulating terrain, under pasture. Ground drops away to E and S beyond bawn. Bawn (dims. c. 140m N-S x 124m E-W) encloses a tower house with adjoining later 17th-century house. Only a short wall length survives (L 1.8m; T 0.76m; H 1.6m) at the E end of the W side, composed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with a thick pebbley mortar. Otherwise the bawn is defined by a low bank (Wth 1.6-4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.78m) which is reduced to scarp along the E side (H 0.86m) and least well defined along the S side where a stream and field boundary run along outer edge of poorly defined bank. Along the N side there is an external fosse (Wth 6.2m; D 1.37m) which was waterlogged at time of inspection, this fosse may be related to a field boundary which runs E-W parallel to the N bank of the bawn. There are undulations within the bawn E and W of the tower house and house.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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