What is recorded here

Coolnamuck Demesne holds a square bawn in County Waterford where one circular tower remains only as foundations while the other still stands two storeys high. The surviving tower has musket loops but no visible stairs, suggesting it may have been climbed by rope, ladder or vanished wooden flight rather than built for easy entry. The missing north wall and ragged eastern ravine imply the bawn was never finished, abandoned or broken open before it stopped being lived in.

The tower house (WA003-008001-) is within a square bawn (dims. 54m N-S; 54m E-W) defined by stone walls (ext. H 0.5m at S to 4m at E where there is a ravine outside), but the N wall is missing. A circular tower (ext. diam. 4.8m) at the NE angle is reduced to its foundations. A second circular tower of two storeys (ext. diam. 4.3m; int. diam. 2.63m; H 4m) at the NW angle is entered through a pointed doorway at ground level. There are four musket loops at ground level and at least two more at first-floor level, but there is no evidence of a stairs connecting the two floors. Toberavalla Well, now a pumphouse, is outside the SE corner of the bawn. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 19 October 2010

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