What is recorded here

Clonea is a bawn in County Waterford where a tower house still stands on a rock outcrop, ringed by a broad fosse and joined to a northern enclosure marked by banks and faint stone walls. Ryland wrote in 1824 that two towers belonged there, but only a fragment remains beside the main tower, leaving the second reduced to absence. The missing houses and forgotten lives inside the bawn are not lost; they have simply stopped answering, waiting for someone reckless enough to ask twice.

The tower house (WA007-021001-) is enclosed by a fosse (Wth c. 8m; D c. 1m) around the base of the rock outcrop SE-W. A bawn (dims. 30m N-S; 28m E-W) to the N is defined by a bank (Wth 2-3m; H 0.3-0.6m) at W, with traces of a stone wall (Wth 0.9m) at E and a scarp at N. The foundations of some houses, probably modern, survive inside the bawn. Two towers were associated with the bawn (Ryland 1824, 299-300), although only a fragment of one remains W of the tower house. Nolan, T. (1987) The castle at Clonea-Power. Decies, No. 35, 19-23. Ryland, Rev. R. H. (1824) The History, topography and antiquities of the county and city of Waterford. John Murray. London. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 01 November 2010

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