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Bawn in Lydacan (kiltartan By.)

Bawn

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Bawn in Lydacan is a ghostly rectangle of grassed-over walls beside a Galway tower house, measuring fifty-five by forty metres. The stones never bonded to the tower, suggesting a separate enclosure where people once sorted livestock, stored grain, or kept secrets from the main hall. A faint internal wall still divides the space, preserving the shape of a forgotten room beneath the grass.
Associated with the tower house (GA113-165----). A series of grassed-over walls (av. H 0.8-0.9m; Wth 2-2.5m) extending from, but not bonded to, the N wall of the tower may be the last vestiges of a bawn (c. 55m N-S; c. 40m E-W). Traces of an internal dividing wall, running E-W, are visible. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 November 2018

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