What is recorded here
Glensleade bawn in County Clare is a rectangular enclosure, 25m E-W and 20m N-S, surrounding a tower house within a multiperiod field system. Its wall survives at W and N, built from roughly hewn horizontally laid limestone blocks, with the E line traceable in rubble and as a scarp. The place suggests a defended domestic yard where tower house and bawn worked together, even if the eastern boundary has largely given way.
Surrounding a tower house (CL005-128----) and within a multiperiod field system (CL005-227004-). A rectangular bawn (25m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a wall (int. H 0.5-0.6m; ext. H 1.4-1.8m) surviving at W and N built from roughly hewn horizontally laid limestone blocks. Its E line is traceable in rubble and as a scarp.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 5 April 2023
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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