Bawn in Fermoyle, County Laois

What is recorded here

Marked as 'castle in ruins' only on the 1890 edition of the OS 6-inch map and on the Down Survey (1655-6) map. No historical references. Situated at the bottom of a valley. Remains include the East gable with a central fireplace and part of the South wall with simple slit opes of a fortified house (LA029-048) and remains of a bawn wall (LA029-04801) projecting Southwards from the South West angle. No other visible surface remains.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA029-048001

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What survives: Recorded monument

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mike Searle, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Algirdas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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