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Bawn

Powerstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Powerstown, 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
Powerstown
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
52.37495, -7.66910
SMR number
TS077-087002-

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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 ground sloping gently to NE in a farmyard with an unoccupied farmhouse to W and range of farm buildings on NE and SE side. Rectangular tower house (TS077-087001-) with remains of a possible bawn wall (H 2m), now pebble-dashed with concrete cap, runs NE for a distance of 1.8m from the N end of the NE wall of tower house and joins up with a two-storey farmhouse. Lyons (1938, 153-4) refers to an rectangular earthwork which originally enclosed the tower house which was in the N corner. According to Lyons the only part surviving is the S angle with a length of the SE and SW side, this area was densely overgrown at time of inspection making examination impossible. In the OS Letters there is some reference to the bawn wall which was 'still seen at Mr. Kennedy's house where a part of the castle is still preserved being used in the walls of a dairyhouse' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 147).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.

Lyons, P. 1938 Earthwork and castle at Powerstown, Clonmel. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 152-5.

Nearby in the register

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

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