Why this matters
Sir Edward Blayney built a fortified house at Bawn in Onomy after 1612 on land he had been granted, likely as part of the English colonial efforts in Ireland during the early 17th century. The site is important as it reflects the expansion of Anglo-Irish settlement and military presence in the region during the post-Plantation period.
What is recorded here
Located on a shelf towards the bottom of a NE-facing slope which overlooks White Island and the N end of Muckno Lough. Sir Edward Blayney built a fortified house (MO020-018----) after 1612 on land he had been granted in Cremonrne barony at Ballylurgan, also known as Ballifort. A contemporary description describes how he ‘hath buylte a very large bawn w'th lyme and stone 18 foote high, well flanked w'th bulworkes upon his land of Ballinelungan… Upon the bawne is buylte a fayre gate house and two other houses of lyme and stone upon two of the corners of the bawn w'ch flankes the whole work. They containe two or three roomes or lodginges a pice w'th chimneys;’ Inside the bawn he buit a ‘fayre and spacious house’ (Shirley 1879, 241; Hunter 1975 81-2). The precise location of the house and bawn is not known, but Coote (1801, 91) says the new house which was built in 1799 was contiguous to the old one.
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Date of upload: 29 June 2018
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