Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - folly
Ballyeeskeen, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyeeskeen
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Lady Margarets Tower (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.24373, -8.82509
- SMR number
- SL012-055002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not listed in the SMR (1989) but included in the RMP (1995) and classified ' Tower Site'. Marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Tower' It is named 'Lady Margaret's Tower (in Ruins)' on the 1909 OS 25-inch plan. There are no surviving upstanding remains visible. This is in all probability a folly.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 31 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.