Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Durra Big, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Durra Big
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.28543, -6.59280
- SMR number
- WX041-028002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Situated on a S-facing slope in the S foothills of Forth Mountain. The only remains of the castle (WX041-028001-) at Durra are a corner tower (int. diam. 4.3m; H 4.7m) from the bawn. It is of two storeys with four gun loops on ground floor and four corbels to support the first floor. The wall is corbelling in at the top, perhaps to form a vault. The castle and bawn were probably E of this structure, which is at the E edge of a farm complex.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 19 March, 2013
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Road - hollow-wayunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.