Bawn in Brittas

Situated on flat terrain in Brittas Demesne. The original castle (TN041-012001) was burnt c.1820 (Bence-Jones 1988, 48, 293) and the landowner intended replacing it with a full-scale replica of Warwick Castle. This venture was started but never finished due to the tragic death of the landowner. A sketch of the original castle in the possession of the present landowner shows three towers, two square, one circular, with intervening buildings, possibly built onto the bawn wall. The towers are approximately four storeys high with crenellated battlements and hood-mouldings over flat-headed windows and may have been part of the bawn defences. The bawn was mentioned in the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 55). There is now a nineteenth-century house built on the site. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

Situated on flat terrain in Brittas Demesne. The original castle (TN041-012001) was burnt c.1820 (Bence-Jones 1988, 48, 293) and the landowner intended replacing it with a full-scale replica of Warwick Castle. This venture was started but never finished due to the tragic death of the landowner. A sketch of the original castle in the possession of the present landowner shows three towers, two square, one circular,…