What is recorded here

William Baillie built a castle and bawn in Crocknahattin during the mid-17th century, placing Cromwellian stone on an older fortification called Tonregie. The structure featured a vaulted castle, a ninety-foot square bawn and two flanking towers, yet it disappeared when pulled down for house improvements. Men may have lived inside those walls, watched the Cavan fields or fled when soldiers came, but no name survives to mark them.

A castle and bawn was erected in the mid-17th century by William Baillie, a Cromwellian planter, on or near the site of Bailieborough Castle, which is described (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 99) as on the site of a fortification that featured in Pynnar’s survey as Tonregie and is described (ibid.) as a “vaulted castle, with a bawn 90 feet square, and two flanking towers…. This ancient castle remained still standing till within a few years, when it was pulled down to make for additions and improvements in the present house. (Davies 1948a, 108) Date of upload: 15 April, 2016

William Baillie, a Cromwellian planter, built the castle and bawn at Bawn in Crocknahattin in the mid-17th century, likely as part of the English colonial settlement in Ireland. It is remembered as a structure associated with post-Restoration plantation efforts and the displacement of native Irish landholders.

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