Overview
Tower — Ballyconneely is recorded as Bawn in Clare. The saved record does not give a safe building date. The saved evidence fixes the place and classification, while builders, attacks and later use remain open unless a named source establishes them.
Who built and held it
The saved record identifies Tower — Ballyconneely as Bawn. It does not safely name a builder, owner or garrison, so no famous namesake has been borrowed.
Attack, change and use
No particular siege, capture, rebuilding or later use is established by the saved public wording. Those events remain unknown unless the linked record or later evidence identifies them.
What survives
The place is saved as Official recorded centre point. Its classification is Bawn; this first account does not claim that a complete building survives where the record may represent ruins, earthworks or a broad mapped area.
Why it mattered
The record preserves Tower — Ballyconneely as a local defensive or high-status place and gives readers an exact starting point for its history. Its wider importance and local stories are not invented where the present evidence is silent.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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