Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
Rathmullan And Ballyboe, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathmullan And Ballyboe
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Rathmullan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathmullan
- Coordinates
- 55.09418, -7.53893
- SMR number
- DG037-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The historic settlement of Rathmullan had grown to over forty houses by the middle of the seventeenth century (Hunter 1981, 62). The seventeenth century plantation of Donegal records the existence of stopne and timber houses forming the historic town of Rathmullan which were located close to the castle of Rathmullan (DG003-007002-). The town is described as 'Near unto this house (DG037-007002-) there is a village erected, consisting of 15 stone houses and 30 timber houses and cabins, thatched, inhabited with Britons' (Treadwell 1954-5, 42). The present street plan and houses in the centre and E quadrant of Rathmullan are probably built on the footprint of the seventeenth century plantation town of Rathmullan.
Hunter , R. J. 1981 'Ulster Plantation Towns 1609-41', in Harkness, D. & O'Dowd, M. (eds.) The Town in Ireland.
Treadwell, V. W. 1954-5 'The Plantation of Donegal - A Survey', Donegal Annual, 42.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: : 08 September 2010
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Carmelite friarsunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillar (present location)under 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.