TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Bawn

Simonstown (Fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Bawn, Simonstown, 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
Simonstown (Fartullagh By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.45807, -7.32160
SMR number
WM026-089001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in pasture. Bawn of Simonstown Castle (WM026-089----) depicted on Boyd’s Estate Map of 1818 (WCL/M/BBE/7) as being half the size of the rectilinear-shaped enclosure (approx. dims. 100m N-S x 58m E-W) shown on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map. Tower house (WM026-089----) adjoins half way along the inner E side. Monument described in 1976 and 1978 as a rectangular-shaped enclosure defined by a substantial bank of earth and stone to NE, SE and SW, having no real indication of an external fosse. There is a double bank with a shallow dip along the NW side. The earthwork is best preserved along the NE side where it has a sharp profile and an outward splay at the NE corner, which appears slightly raised. There is a narrow earthen flat platform or terrace-like feature approx. half way up the outer face of the NE bank. This side has an entrance gap at N, outside of which are the ruins of a 19th century house, with yellow brick dressings, said to be a herdsman’s house of the former estate (local information). The interior has an E-facing slope and is slightly uneven with a few stones scattered around the surface.

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

Date of upload: 04 November 2019

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Bawn in Westmeath All County Westmeath records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map