What is recorded here

Bawn in Slainstown North is a large enclosed court on a flat ridge in County Tipperary, built around a tower house and later dwelling. Its boundary has mostly become a low bank, but a short limestone wall still stands at the west end, marking the place where people once lived, worked and defended what they valued. The surrounding fields and hidden waters have softened its edges, yet the shape remains clear enough to imagine the household that moved through it.

On a flat-topped ridge running N-S in undulating terrain, under pasture. Ground drops away to E and S beyond bawn. Bawn (dims. c. 140m N-S x 124m E-W) encloses a tower house with adjoining later 17th-century house. Only a short wall length survives (L 1.8m; T 0.76m; H 1.6m) at the E end of the W side, composed of limestone rubble, roughly coursed with a thick pebbley mortar. Otherwise the bawn is defined by a low bank (Wth 1.6-4m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.4-0.78m) which is reduced to scarp along the E side (H 0.86m) and least well defined along the S side where a stream and field boundary run along outer edge of poorly defined bank. Along the N side there is an external fosse (Wth 6.2m; D 1.37m) which was waterlogged at time of inspection, this fosse may be related to a field boundary which runs E-W parallel to the N bank of the bawn. There are undulations within the bawn E and W of the tower house and house. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

The Bawn in Slainstown North was built in the late medieval period, with the adjoining 17th-century house reflecting later expansion by local gentry. Its strategic location on a ridge suggests it was important for defense and regional control in early modern Ireland.

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