Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ballylahan, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylahan
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.93458, -9.10506
- SMR number
- MA061-145002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to a market town or settlement which was established in the vicinity of Ballylahan Castle (MA061-145001-), an Anglo-Norman fortification built in the mid-late 13th century by Jordan de Exeter at a fording point on the River Moy (Knox 1908, 108). The townland name derives from the Irish ‘Baile-Atha-lethain’ or ‘Town of the Broad Ford’. No trace now survives of a town, and it has not been possible to establish its exact location, extent or nature.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 6 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.