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Road - hollow-way

Ballymore, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Road - hollow-way, Ballymore, 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
Ballymore
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.49412, -7.66971
SMR number
WM024-004002-

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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

An old roadway which now survives as a hollow-way leading into the 17th century artillery fort (WM024-004001-) is depicted on George Story's sketch map of Ballymore 1691 (Story 1693, 318). The site of a medieval church (WM024-005----) is located 70m to the west, with an Anglo-Norman motte (WM024-004----) located at the northern end of the roadway. A circular castle (WM024-182----) is located 230m to the south of the road while the clustered settlement of Ballymore is located at the southern end of the roadway. Described in 2009 as 'The traces of a 'hollow-way' marking the original route from the village (WM024-178----) to the fort (WM024-004001-) are visible to the north of the church (WM024-005----)'(Report on the Battlefield of Ballymore Co. Westmeath 2009, 11). An aerial photograph of the church and graveyard clearly shows the roadway (WM024-004002-) depicted in Story's 1691 sketch running as a linear feature through the field to the east of the church and graveyard (CUCAP BDU 64).

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 10 November 2009

References

Story, G. 1693 An impartial history of the wars of Ireland, with a continuation thereof. London. Chiswell.

CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com

Nearby in the register

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

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