What is recorded here

Indicated, Dromineer is a bawn in County Tipperary, Ireland. Its wall runs from the NE angle around the S side with a pronounced batter on the S face, and it is incorporated in the hall-house description TN014-004001. The slope suggests a wall built to be seen as much as to keep out, perhaps marking a residence that wanted to announce itself across open ground.

Bawn wall runs from NE angle around the S side with pronounced batter on S side. Incorporated in hall-house describtion TN014-004001. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Dromineer Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in County Tipperary, Ireland, and was likely built by the Butler family, who were prominent Anglo-Norman lords in the region. It is remembered as an example of early modern Irish defensive architecture and as part of the historical landscape associated with the Butler Earls of Ormond.

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