Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - hollow-way
Ballymore, County Westmeath, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.