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Bawn in Derryowen

Bawn
Bawn in Derryowen
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Derryowen tower house still stands beside a ghost wall, a linear bawn stretching fifteen metres west where stone and memory collide. A rock-cut fosse may have breathed life between them, channeling water or shadow into the tower's roots. The wall has vanished, but the cut remains, a wound in the earth that refuses to heal. Perhaps the bawn was never built to keep people out, but to hold the tower inside a shape the land could remember.
Ua Cróinín and Breen (2005, 8-10) noted some vestiges of a section of linear bawn wall c. 15m W of Derryowen tower house (CL011-023----). On Digital Globe (2011-13) a possible rock-cut fosse is visible between the bawn wall and the tower house. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 Spetember 2021

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