Bawn in Cartronkeel (clonlonan By.) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Cartronkeel castle once wore a rounded bawn wall with four circular towers, likely built during a seventeenth-century expansion. That defensive ring has largely vanished, leaving only a semi-circular flanker against the tower house to hint at its shape. The loss turns a proud local stronghold into a ghostly fragment, forcing imagination to complete what the stones no longer show.

In 1982 the ASI recorded the presence of a semi-circular flanker abutting the SE corner of the tower house (WM030-112----) which may be the remains of a flanker belonging to a possible bawn of the castle now mainly destroyed. This bawn wall may have had four circular flanking towers and could have been added on to the tower house (WM030-112----) in the 17th century when a three-storey high building was added on to the W face of the tower house. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 22 May 2012

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