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Two c17th houses within bawn is a post-medieval fortified enclosure in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The bawn—a defensive wall surrounding domestic buildings—represents a settlement strategy common in early modern Ulster, where English and Anglo-Norman settlers fortified their residences against local resistance. The two houses contained within this fortification date to the seventeenth century, a period when such defended homesteads were integral to the plantation landscape of Ireland.
The site sits on bedrock of the Tyrone Group, comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. This mixed geology would have provided building stone locally, whilst the underlying limestone determined water availability and soil character in this upland Fermanagh location. The combination of solid foundations and accessible stone made such positions practical for permanent settlement.
The monument is protected under Historic Environment Division reference 9745 and remains an important record of seventeenth-century colonisation and domestic life. The bawn's physical structure and the domestic buildings it enclosed offer archaeological evidence of how newcomers to Ulster organised their dwellings for security during a period of contested land and uncertain tenure.
Two c17th houses within bawn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9745. View the official record →
Two c17th houses within bawn is a post-medieval fortified enclosure in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9745.
Two c17th houses within bawn dates from the post-med period, and is classified as a fortification. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Two c17th houses within bawn is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 9745.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Boho cross. multi-period church & graveyard cross-shaft & base (6.3 km), Six decorated stones (6.4 km), Bivallate rath (6.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Two c17th houses within bawn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Two c17th houses within bawn stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.