Bawn in Tullovin, County Limerick

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What is recorded here

Westropp (1906-7, 168) recorded the following details about Tullovin Castle (LI031-049----), Sheela-na-gig (LI031-048001-) and bawn; '1655 Tullovyne C[astle]., bawn, stone-house, orchard, and two mills, late estate of Jas. Leo (C.S., xxiv., p. 29; B.D., p. 72). 1666 Granted to Cha. Ormsby (Act Sett.)'. The 1654-56 Civil Survey of Limerick recorded that Edmund Leo of Tullovyne, an Irish Papist, was the owner of 'a castle, bawne stone house, an orchard with two mills' (Simington 1938, 139).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LI031-048002

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