Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Rabbit warren
Ballynacor, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynacor
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM013-116----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of medieval rabbit warrens in the townland of Ballynacor has not been identified. The terrier of the 1655 Down Survey map of Killulagh parish stated that 'There is three Conny Berryes [Coney Burrows / Rabbit Warrens] in Ballinecurr' (NLI, MS 723-4). The rabbit warrens in 1641 stood on lands belonging to Alderman Thomas Nugent who is listed as an 'Irish Papist' in the terrier of the Down Survey.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 July 2018
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.