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Bawn

Hopestown, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Hopestown, County Westmeath, 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
Hopestown
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Outlined
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.51521, -7.40803
SMR number
WM018-140001-

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a low ridge, in pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as the outline of a large subrectangular-shaped area immediately SW of Hopestown Castle (WM018-140----). Hopestown Church (WM018-139---) 310m to N. Possible bawn consists of a large roughly rectangular shaped area (approx. dims. 76m NW-SE; 55m NE-SW) with castle to NE, defined by an earth and stone bank at NW and SW sides. A scarp defines the SE side, whereas the enclosing element at NE side is no longer visible. Old cultivation ridges run roughly NE-SW across the bawn and traverse the bank at SW. There are similar ridges running NW-SE in the vicinity, to W and S of the bawn. Site of castle and bawn are visible today as an oval-shaped earthwork with L-shaped stretch of bawn wall on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 22 February 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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