Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Coolnamuck Demesne, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolnamuck Demesne
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34394, -7.46285
- SMR number
- WA003-008002-
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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
The tower house (WA003-008001-) is within a square bawn (dims. 54m N-S; 54m E-W) defined by stone walls (ext. H 0.5m at S to 4m at E where there is a ravine outside), but the N wall is missing. A circular tower (ext. diam. 4.8m) at the NE angle is reduced to its foundations. A second circular tower of two storeys (ext. diam. 4.3m; int. diam. 2.63m; H 4m) at the NW angle is entered through a pointed doorway at ground level. There are four musket loops at ground level and at least two more at first-floor level, but there is no evidence of a stairs connecting the two floors. Toberavalla Well, now a pumphouse, is outside the SE corner of the bawn.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 19 October 2010
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.