Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Billistown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Billistown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60116, -7.11280
- SMR number
- WM013-031001-
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
The terrier of the 1655 Down Survey map of Castletown parish recorded that in 1641 the lands of 'Ballistowne' were in the possession of James White (NLI MS 723-4).
Ruins of Billistown Castle (WM013-031----) standing on a low sub-rectangular shaped platform in reclaimed grassland. Possible outline of destroyed bawn visible as a low rectangular-shaped area defined by a low scarp. The outline of this earthwork is visible on digital globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. At the N corner of this platform there is a slightly raised area which may mark the site of a small structure. A number of wide low earthworks extend in all directions from the tower house. Low rises of ground to the S & SW may mark the site of a bawn although this is by no means certain. These low banks are no longer visible in the field which appears to have been reclaimed.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 4 April 2018
Nearby in the register
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.