1999:020 - BALLYTYRONE: Drumilly Bawn, Drumilly Demense, Armagh

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Armagh Site name: BALLYTYRONE: Drumilly Bawn, Drumilly Demense

Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 8:12 Licence number:

Author: Alan Reilly, NAC

Site type: Designed landscape - formal garden

Period/Dating: Modern (AD 1750-AD 2000)

ITM: E 691071m, N 851341m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.402507, -6.597335

It was thought that the foundations of a 17th-century bawn, known from Plantation period documentation, may have been present on or under the site of the walled garden know as 'Drumilly Bawn'. The name was the only indication of any great antiquity. No bawn features were noted in the make-up of the present garden wall.

Excavation trenches, their position dictated by those of rare clearances in the forest, confirmed that the site was a late 18th-century walled garden, consisting of a tall inner wall, a ha-ha and a slip. No traces of earlier occupation were found.

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