County: Tipperary Site name: KILTINAN CASTLE, Kintinan
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 97E0062
Author: Dave Pollock
Site type: Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle and Bawn
Period/Dating: Multi-period
ITM: E 623265m, N 632032m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.439275, -7.657819
Monitoring drain trenches at Kiltinan Castle led to a short excavation in the outer bawn. Cobbled surfaces and mortared stonework were unexpectedly well preserved, sealed under rubble interpreted as debris from Cromwell's bombardment of 1650.
The mortared stonework was the fabric of a bridge crossing a ditch and entering the inner bawn through a gateway. The bridge and gate were probably built together in the 16th century; the wall (lower part) and ditch are considerably older. A cobbled road crossed the bridge, and a cobbled path ran south between the end of the bridge and a wooden building. The wooden building was later dismantled, and the path was widened to a cobbled road. (One gateway can be seen in the outer bawn wall; remains of a second gate can probably be found a short distance beyond the excavation, on the line of the path.)Before the construction of the bridge in the 16th century access to the castle yard (the present inner bawn) must have been from the south, where the main house stands today.
33 Woodlawn, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
