Bawn

If your Querist regarding a "Bawn" will look into Macnevin's *Confiscation of Ulster* (Duffy: Dublin, 1846, p. 171. &c.), he will find that a Bawn must have been a sort of court-yard, which might be used on emergency as a fortification for defence. They were constructed either of *lime* and *stone*, of *stone* and *clay*, or of *sods*, and twelve to fourteen feet high, and sometimes inclosing a dwelling-house, and with the addition of "flankers."