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Designed landscape - folly

Ballyeeskeen, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Designed landscape - folly, Ballyeeskeen, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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