Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Ballynakill (Kilkenny West By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakill (Kilkenny West By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Dotted outline
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49615, -7.87463
- SMR number
- WM022-006001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 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)
- 1857 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Sited on a slight rise, in gently undulating pasture. Possible bawn belonging to Ballynakill Castle described in 1979 as the remains of a small rectangular enclosure defined by a low bank adjoining the SW wall of a tower house (WM022-006----). This possible bawn area is depicted in dotted outline on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. No surface remaina visible today of the bawn on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 15 July 2019.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.