Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Knockmaon, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmaon
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.09168, -7.72553
- SMR number
- WA030-041002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a rock outcrop hillock (H c. 20m) which rises out of the low-lying undulating landscape at the S edge of the Cappagh valley. A grass-covered rectangular enclosure (dims. 23.5m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3m; H 0.3-0.9m) is W of the tower house of Knockmaon (WA030-041001-) and may represent its bawn. Church (WA030-042001-) is c. 100m to S.
Date of upload/revision: 11th August, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.