What is recorded here

Unknown Townland in County Dublin, Ireland, is where a vanished bawn once stood. The lost ground still belongs to the world as a place, not as a warning about the limits of memory. A bawn is a bawn, regardless of whether human tools still identify every angle of it.

The Civil survey (1654-6) describes a castle with a stone house adjoining a stone bawn at Clontarf (Simington 1945, 176). Rocque's map (1760) shows a large rectangular bawn with circular bastions at the NW and NE angles, which was demolished in 1837.

A stone bawn with adjoining house was recorded at Clontarf in the 17th century and depicted in Rocque's 1760 map, indicating its likely defensive and residential significance during the post-medieval period.

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