Bawn

The National Monuments Service's description

Cannorstown Castle (WM025-019----) which was a Dillon residence stood inside a bawn wall. Situated on rock outcrop in grassland, corn mill possibly built on site of medieval mill (WM015-025----) located 60m to N . This outcrop has been built up on the E side to form a platform that is faced with a stone wall (L 25m; H 1.75m) clearly visible on E side. At the S end of this wall are the wall footings of a small building. To E of this platform there is a small sub-rectangular-shaped enclosure defined by wall footings visible ay S and SE. On the E side of this enclosure there is a substantial stone wall (L 9m; max. int. H 2m; ext. H 3m) with remains of a gun loop visible. Later post-1700 farm buildings now in ruins encroach upon the N-NE and S ends of the site. The fabric of these ruinous buildings contains medieval architectural fragments including numerous pieces of door and window frames and several fragments of quoin stones dressed with rough pock marks in typical medieval fashion.
In 1621 the castle and lands of Cannorstown including 'the bawn, 1 stone hall (WM015-019----), 1 orchard, 1 water-mill (WM015-025----) and 1 carucate of land' were granted to Sir William Parsons (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 513).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 7 September 2018

References

Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I - Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimile of the Irish record commissioners' calendar prepared prior to 1830, with foreword by M.C. Griffith (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1966)