What is recorded here

Indicated, Bunratty East is a bawn in County Clare where the present wall stands upon foundations from an earlier, deeper bawn, though the full excavation results remain unpublished. That hidden layer suggests the castle has worn more than one skin, with people building, breaking and rebuilding across centuries while the earth kept the old lines.

According to Wiggins (2000), citing Share (1995, 180-82), excavations took place in the vicinity of the castle between 1964 and 1967, directed for the Office of Public Works by Marcus ó hEochaidh, but the results have never been published. Sherlock (2011, 214-15) notes that evidence for a 17th-century bawn wall and a second, earlier bawn was found in these excavations and that the present bawn wall was built upon foundations which were found during the excavation. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 8 October 2019

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