What is recorded here

Bawn Castle & Nunnery (in Ruins) is a causeway at the E angle of a filled-in castle moat in County Longford, Ireland. A four-metre drystone wall holds back the hidden water, while a small square opening lets it flow through. The wall likely appeared alongside Bawn House during the 18th or early 19th century, long after the late medieval castle fell into ruin. It is not a grand bridge, but a practical cut through earth and memory, still guiding water where a fortress once stood.

Located at the E angle of the filled-in moat of the castle (LF019-005002-) is a drystone wall causeway (Wth 4m) with small square culvert-like opening to allow the water of the moat flow through the wall. This causeway appears to be contemporary with the drystone field wall to the E and also with the destroyed house known as 'Bawn House' to the SW. This house dates from the 18th/early 19th century and it is likely that the causeway dates from the same period. It does not appear to be contemporaneous with the late medieval castle (LF019-005002-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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