What is recorded here

Kilkeedy Castle stands on a limestone ridge above a turlough, where a deep bedrock step and double-faced wall may have formed a bawn for storing goods or keeping animals. The sharp eastern edge aligns with the tower, suggesting the ridge itself was shaped into a defensible courtyard rather than left as ordinary ground. A wide shelf outside the entrance may have carried visitors up from below, letting the castle control who approached and when.

On a small NE-SW oriented ridge of exposed limestone which slopes to the N into a small turlough. A possible bawn (24m E-W; min. 17m N-S) located at Kilkeedy Castle tower house (CL011-021002-). It is defined by a double-faced wall (Wth 1.05m; H c. 0.5m; L 12.7m) 8m W of the tower house, by a wall footing just S of a rubble mound to the S of the tower house and at E by a high step (H 0.8m) in the bedrock outcrop that forms a straight edge parallel with the E wall of the tower house (5m away). The centre of the bedrock step forming the E side is indented (Wth 1.6m; D 0.7m) which could be interpreted as an entrance. Outside the E wall is a N-S running shelf (Wth 4m) which may have been a road leading to the tower. A modern entrance (Wth 3.5m) at the SE corner is accessed means of a wide ramp approaching from the SE. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 23 January 2023

A bawn associated with Kilkeedy Castle, a 15th- to 16th-century tower house, likely built by the Blake family, who were prominent in the area during the late medieval period. The site is important as part of a defensive complex reflecting the regional power structures of west County Limerick.

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