Bawn in Castlefleming Stubber,garrison — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Castlefleming Stubber stands on a high ridge in County Laois, its rectangular walls and broken south tower still marking the edge of the sky. The Down Survey mapped it in 1655, yet local people later admitted they knew nothing of its history. That gap is not an absence; it is an invitation to imagine the hands that built it, the families that lived inside it and the reasons they stopped coming home.

Situated on an elevated site in undulating countryside. A rectangular hall-like structure (LA027-016), now two storeys high and with the remains of a south projecting tower in the SW angle and a later extension off the NW angle. There is a possible bawn wall attached to the E end. Castle marked on the Down Survey (1655-6) map and 'supposed to be the ruins of a fortress' (O'Flanagan, 1933, 91). Described in the OS letters as 'There are old walls in the Townland of Garrison which area supposed to be the ruins of a fortress, but the peopl know nothing of its history' (O'Flanagan, 1933, vol. 1, p. 36). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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