Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Market-house
Ballinalee Or Saintjohnstown, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinalee Or Saintjohnstown
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LF009-023009-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with the 17th-century settlement of St Johnstown (LF009-023----). At the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion one of the O'Farrells nailed a government proclamation to the door of the market-house at Saint Johnstown (Gillespie 2005, 106; TCD, MS 817, fol. 235v). Its precise location has not been identified.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 August 2013
References
Gillespie, R. 2005 Reading Ireland. Manchester Univeristy Press.
Trinity College Dublin, The 1641 depositions. Dublin.
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