What is recorded here

Bawn in Coolamber is a nearly circular stone enclosure in County Longford, built around an older ringwork platform and associated with a fortified house. Its thin surviving walls mark a large indoor space where people may have lived, worked or been kept safe during troubled times. The bawn turns an old earthwork into a stone room, suggesting that the place was refortified rather than abandoned.

Associated with a fortified house (LF016-018002-), which lies in the NW quadrant of the interior. This almost circular bawn (int. dims. 39m N–S; 38m E–W; wall T 0.95m; Wall H 0.3m) is built around the perimeter of the platform of a possible ringwork (LF016-018003-). Its outline is indicated by wall-footings and there is evidence of a possible rectangular mural or garderobe tower projecting out from the bawn wall at SW. It is unclear whether the platform, fortified house and bawn are of contemporary date or whether the platform is an earlier ringwork that was subsequently refortified. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 4 January 2012

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