What is recorded here

Sir Charles Coote rebuilt Malby’s ruined bawn beside the River Suck after 1616, leaving two old towers and a clumsy new one to mark the angles. The missing walls and buried foundations suggest a grander enclosure than the bare stones admit. Perhaps Coote trusted the river and local fear more than heavy masonry, while Malby’s towers still watch the water like forgotten sentinels.

Sir Charles Coote built a fortified house (RO039-061002-) and bawn at the site of Malby's fortified house (RO039-061001-) after 1616. Situated on a rise on the S bank of the W-E River Suck at a point where the river turns S c. 60m to the E. The bawn (dims. c. 60m E-W; c. 40m N-S) surrounded the house, but nothing remains of it apart from the NE and SE towers which were part of Malby's house, mirrored by a featureless and poorly built hexagonal tower at the NW angle. The foundations of the SW tower and the W wall (T c. 1.6m) of the bawn were uncovered c. 1960 (Connellan 1962-3), and there is a well, recently conserved, ouside the NW angle of the bawn. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

Sir Charles Coote built the Bawn in Castlecoote after 1616, replacing an earlier fortified house at the site. The location on the River Suck made it strategically significant for controlling local trade and movement in the region.

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