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Settlement cluster

Bellanaboy, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Bellanaboy, 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
Bellanaboy
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Bellanaboy (ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.15556, -8.90844
SMR number
SL023-002----

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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

Depicted as a cluster of three dwellings on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map where they are named 'Bellanaboy (ruins)': the name is not in antiquarian typeface. Wood-Martin in his 'History of Sligo, county and town (1882, vol. 1, pp. 115-6) refers to 'a map of the barony, circum. 1609,' where 'twenty-three castes were marked. Most of these have totally disappeared … there are slight remains of buildings at ….. Bellanaboy…' The compilers of the SMR (1989) identified the 'buildings' marked on the OS 6-inch map (1837) as the site of this castle. On inspection in 1993 no visible remains of any structure resembling a 'castle' were found at this location. It is impossible to know if Wood-Martin ever visited this site; it is possible that he inferred a connection between the location of the 'castle' on the 1609 map with the name recorded on the OS 6-inch map. It is evident that the buildings represented on the OS 6-inch map were in ruins at the time of the survey (1837) though it is impossible to determine their age. The possibility that they could be of pre-1700 AD date cannot be ruled out.

Revised by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 25 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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