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Bawn

Kilfaughny, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Kilfaughny, 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
Kilfaughny
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Hachured
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.50479, -7.85761
SMR number
WM022-007001-

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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 rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. A roughly rectangular-shaped enclosure to the immediate SW of Kilfaughny Castle (WM022-007----) which is defined by a scarp (approx. L 15m) running N-S along the W side. Annotated ‘Fortified Wall’ on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map where Kilfaughny Castle is shown as a rectangular-shaped ruin standing inside a rectangular shaped earthwork with ‘fortified wall’ to SW side and a larger rectangular-shaped earthwork to S.

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

Date of upload: 15 July 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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