What is recorded here

Bawn in Erry is a grass-covered rectangular enclosure in County Tipperary, Ireland, still attached to the south end of a live graveyard. Inside sits the wall-footprint of a small tower, while a shallow bank circles the whole place like a forgotten room. The flat land opens toward distant hills, but the east rises to block the view, as if the bawn were built to watch one direction and hide from the other.

In flat grassland at base of a W-facing hillslope in undulating countryside with good views to N, S and W, higher ground to E, stream 115m to W of castle, church (TS053-045----) and graveyard (TS053-045001-) 50m to N. Watermill (TS053-045005-) 139m to SW. Earthworks of possible desterted settlement (TS053-045004-) to W, N and S of castle. All that survives are the grass-covered wall-footings of a possible small rectangular tower (TS053-045002-) in the centre of a rectangular enclosure (int. dims. 55m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earth and stone bank (base Wth 3m; top Wth 1.2m; int. H. 0.6m; ext. H 0.7m) which may be the remains of a bawn. Possible castle and bawn are attached to the S end of the graveyard wall. Dimensions and shape of wall-footings suggest that this may be the remains of a tower house with associated bawn. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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