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On the edge of low-lying, boggy, rough pasture with rock outcrop. The bawn is associated with a fortified house (KK007-001001-) known as 'Castle Pierce'. The area has been planted with forestry with a roughly square buffer zone (dims. c. 65m²) around the castle. In the 17th century this townland was part of Bruckana (called Brickanagh) townland. The Down survey map of Eirke parish shows a castle annotated 'decayed' in Brickanagh with Peter Archdeacon (aka Pierce Cody), Irish papist, listed as the proprietor before the 1641 Rising. The accompanying terrier also mentions a bawn. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 284), 'Part of the courtyard wall remained down to 1855'. The bawn is not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 11 March 2019
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