Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Baldwinstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baldwinstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tower
- Coordinates
- 52.23664, -6.58011
- SMR number
- WX047-022002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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
A bawn wall (L 5.4m; incomplete H c. 5m) is running SE from the E angle of Baldwinstown tower house (WX047-022001-), but it is not bonded to it. The wall terminates in a circular tower (ext. diam. c. 3.5m; H c. 7m) entered from the wall walk of the bawn wall. The bawn lay to the W, between the tower house and a N-S stream, but there is no other evidence of it. Archaeological testing (96E0359) c. 30m to the E of the tower house produced no related material (Scully 1996a, b).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 October, 2013
References
Scully, O.M.B. 1996b Balwinstown castle, Balwinstown (sic) Medieval. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 114, No. 399. Bray. Wordwell.
Scully, O.M.B. 1996a Archaeological testing at Baldwinstown Castle, Co. Wexford. Licence No. 96E0359. Unpublished report.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Memorial stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.