Bawn

The National Monuments Service's description

According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) 'The sd lands hath on it a Bawne & a thatcht house' which in 1640 was in the proprietorship of 'Benet Sall of Cashell Alderman Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 232). In a farmyard in undulating grassland, the NW angle of the bawn survives with a circular turret (H 2.65m) projecting from the wall by 2.5m. The bawn is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. A later stone wall of an outbuilding continues westward from the turret. A wall (T 0.6m), which appears to be the keyed into the turret, runs eastward for 18.6m. Approx. 8.5m further E there is a house (TS069-071002-) aligned N-S which may form the NE angle of the bawn. The walls of the house are 0.6-0.65m thick, consistent with the thickness of the possible bawn wall. Outbuildings to the SW may incorporate the bawn wall in the rear wall (H c. 3m), forming a much of the western end of the S wall and southern end of the W of the bawn. The external SW angle is heavily overgrown with ivy. If the extant walls visible are the original bawn walls it measured c. 37m N-S and c. 33m E-W.

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.