Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
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
- WM013-117----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of the medieval road connecting Trim in Co. Meath to Athlone which passe through the townland of Ballynacor has not been identified. The terrier of the 1655 Down Survey map of Killulagh parish stated that 'There is a greate Roade through this Towne from Kells and Trym to Athlone and other places by reason of two Bridges' (NLI, MS 723-4). The route of this medieval road is depicted on the 1655 Down Survey map of Killulagh parish. The line of the present road may follow the route taken by the medieval road but this is unclear.
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.