Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Slainstown North, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.