What is recorded here

Thirty metres of rain-washed earth and stone once enclosed a living world beside the tower. People moved through that square in storms, planted gardens, kept animals or simply watched the sky change. The bawn marked the boundary between private life and open countryside. Later buildings filled the same space, but the old line still shapes the ground.

A square area (est. dims. L c. 40m; Wth c. 40m) to the N and E of a tower house (KD002-007----) is occupied by a series of later courtyards, outbuildings and walled gardens. In 1998, an archaeological assessment (Licence no. 98E0228) found that the tower-house was abutted along the S by an earthen bank and outer fosse which was interpreted as being partly defensive and partly for drainage. It extended E from the tower house to define the S-side of a probable bawn. Traces of a corresponding bank and fosse overlain by a later wall defined the N-side opposite. (Pollock, D. 1998 Kildare. 1998:311. Grange Castle. Late medieval/post-medieval tower-house. [Online] Available at http://www.excavations.ie [Accessed 14 April 2005]) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

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