What is recorded here

Bawnmadrum is a ruined tower house in County Tipperary, Ireland, where intact sandstone bawn walls still bracket low, unpatterned mounds above a boggy plain. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 called it the walls of an old Bawne and named Thomas Magher of Bollybane as proprietor, while later accounts placed the keep at the south east end and outbuildings to the south. The castle has lost nearly every recognizable room, leaving only a stone boundary and the suggestion that people once lived, worked or fled within its shadow.

Situated on a break in a NE-facing slope in gently rolling pastureland, overlooking a boggy plain to the N, with the site of an enclosure (TN017-067002-) c. 42m to the SE. The Civil Survey of 1654-6 simply refers to 'the walls of an old Bawne' and lists 'Thomas Magher of Bollybane Esqr. Irish Papist' as proprietor (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 9). According to the OS Letters the 'Castle or keep stood at the south east end where its foundations are still indistinctly traceable' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 82). The ITA Survey of 1943 mentions 'foundations of several outbuildings' to the S (OPW files), no remains of which are now visible. The N and E walls of the bawn (TN017-067001-) are fairly intact, built of roughly coursed sandstone rubble with poor sandy-clay pebble mortar. Low mounds in the interior do not conform to any recognisable pattern. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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