Bawn

105 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bawn, from 55 m² to 291,371 m² (29.14 ha, 72 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 25 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Bawn in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 May 2022Conditional

  proposed two storey dwelling, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Longford County Council, 22125

• 16 May 2019Conditional

  relocation of previously granted site entrance under Ref PL17317 accessing new dwelling to include changes to site layout

  Retention · Longford County Council, 19128

• 6 Dec 2018Conditional

  for proposed two storey dwelling house, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter area and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 18289

• 21 Dec 2017Conditional

  proposed two storey type dwelling house, detached garage, formation of new entrance, wastewater treatment system and polishing filter and all ancillary site works

  Permission · Longford County Council, 17317

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bawn.

Recorded monuments

• LF018-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a rise in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. 29.1m) defined by a scarp (H 0.7m at SE; 1.65m at NW). A report in 1977 (SMR file) recorded traces of an external fosse, which are no longer visible. The original entrance is not recognisable. Most of the SE quadrant has been quarried away. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-003 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the SE slope of a low rise. Depicted as a circular enclosure with the designation 'Fort' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This monument has been almost completely levelled. Remains comprise a poorly defined, low, circular mound of earth and stone (diam. c. 20m) defined by a broad, flattened scarp (H 0.3-0.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded traces of an external fosse, which has since been infilled. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-005001 Bawn
  Description

  Associated with a 17th-century fortified house (LF019-005002-). This bawn wall may be the remains of the curtain wall of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman castle (LF019-005003-). Wall-footings along the NW and NE sides indicate it was a substantial wall (H 0.5m; wall T 1.2m). No visible surface trace survives along the SE and SW sides where a 19th-century wall has been built upon its line. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 April 2012

• LF019-005002 House - fortified house
  Description

  Within the E sector of a possible Anglo-Norman castle (LF019-005003-). In 1621 ‘under the commission for the plantation of Longford and the territory of Ely O’Carroll’, Robert O’Farroll received the ‘castle [LF019-005003-], village and lands of Bawne 88a; … The premises created the manor of Bawne’ (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 533). The house may have been built following the creation of the manor. Its fragmentary and scattered remains are covered in ivy making detailed examination impossible and the plan and layout of the building difficult to ascertain. Originally the fortified house appears to have consisted of a central rectangular block (c. 10m N-S; 7m E-W), two storeys high and aligned NW-SE, with angle towers at the SE and NW corners. It is built with roughly coursed limestone rubble; a base-batter is not visible. Only a short length (L 4.7m; wall T 0.9m) of the SW wall of the central block survives, running off the SE corner of the NW angle tower. At first-floor level there is evidence of a large window with a cut-stone hood-moulding of late 16th/17th-century date. The SE angle tower (int. diam. 2.58m; wall T 1.25m) is circular in plan. It was accessed from the house, at both ground and first-floor level, through doorways at NW. At least five gun loops are visible on the ground floor. The first floor was wooden and was carried on an offset. A stepped offset between the ground and first floor carried a circular wooden stairs. The NW tower (int. dims. 3.04m x 2.83m; wall T 1.20m) is square in plan. It was accessed from the house, at both ground and first-floor level, through doorways in the SE angle. Gun loops are visible on the ground floor in the N and W walls. At first-floor level, in the centre of the N wall, there is a twin-light, square-headed, cut-stone window with a central stone mullion and diamond-shaped glazing-bar holes. During the 19th century the N section of the courtyard wall associated with Bawn House, now levelled, was built onto the W face of the tower. Immediately to the NE of the SE angle tower are the fragmentary remains of a small stone bridge (LF019-005004-), which is probably contemporary with Bawn House. Named 'Bawn Castle & Nunnery' on the various editions of the OS 6-inch maps, there is no evidence that a nunnery ever existed at this location (see LF019-005005-). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 13 April 2012

• LF019-005003 Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle
  Description

  On a NE-facing slope in poorly drained pasture. In 1261 a castle was built by ‘John de Verdun in Magh-dumha [Moydow] in Muinter-Ghilgan’ (ALC, 444). In 1295 it was razed by Sefraid O Fergail [O’Ferrall]’ (Ann. Conn., 195). The index of the Annals of Connacht indicates that this castle, described as ‘Caislen Moige Duma’ (Moydow Castle), was constructed in the townland of Bawn near the modern townland of Moydow (Ann. Conn., 814). It comprises a raised rectangular platform (c. 72m NE–SW; c. 48m NW–SE) defined by a scarp with a very wide, deep, external fosse (Wth 11.2m; D 1.1-4m) evident along the NW and NE sides, where the external face of the platform appears to have been retained by stone wall-facing. Elsewhere the fosse has been filled in. In the 17th-century a fortified house (LF019-005002-) was built in the E sector of the interior and its associated bawn wall (LF019-005001-) runs along the perimeter of the NE and NW sides of the platform. It is possible that this bawn wall may be the remains of the curtain wall of the castle. A 19th-century wall runs along on the SE and SW sides. The remains of a courtyard in the SE quadrant are associated with Bawn House, a 19th-century house that has been levelled. A small stone bridge (LF019-005004-) at the E angle of the platform is probably contemporary with this house. A modern farmhouse is situated in the SW quadrant. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 12 April 2012

• LF019-005004 Causeway
  Description

  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

• LF019-027 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In reclaimed, low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 18m) which is divided into unequal portions by a NE-SW field boundary. The larger portion, to the SE, is not visible at ground level. The smaller portion, to the NW, is defined by a low scarp (H 0.4m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) indicates that it was enclosed by a shallow external fosse and fragmentary traces of an outer bank. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-028 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On a N-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1976 (SMR file) noted that this slightly raised circular area (diam. c. 25m) was defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. It is defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.4m). The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-034 Barrow - bowl-barrow
  Description

  In low-lying pasture. A circular, dome-shaped mound of earth and stone (diam. at base c. 10m; H 1.3m). A report in 1976 (SMR file) recorded fragmentary traces of a possible encircling fosse which are no longer identifiable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

• LF019-131 Enclosure
  Description

  Situated on grassland. Outline of circular-shaped earthwork (diam. c. 45m NE-SW) transected at NW by a post 1700 field boundary running NE-SW visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. See attached image from Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 7 April 2021

• LF019-132 Earthwork
  Description

  Situated on grassland. Outline of square-shaped earthwork (dims. c. 27m NE-SW) visible on Digital Globe aerial imagery taken 2011-13. See attached image from Google Earth orthoimages Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère Date of upload: 7 April 2021

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bawn.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bawn.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Bawn with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Longford.

Name

Bawn · An Bábhún

Area

2,184,701 m² (218.47 ha, 539.85 acres)

Civil parish

Moydow, and its townlands

Barony

Moydow

Electoral division

Ardagh West, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Ardagh West electoral division: 509 people in 173 households; 89% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Aghalust, Barroe, Bawn Mountain, Cordivin, Garranboy, Graffoge, Keelogalabaun, Lisduff (Montgomery), Lisgurry, Mollyroe, Mountjessop, Moydow Glebe, Nappagh

Placenames

Bawn on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.