Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athlone
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.42161, -7.94185
- SMR number
- WM029-042060-
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
The castle known as Cox's Castle (Murtagh 1994, 10) is depicted on Thomas Sherrard's map of Athlone dating from 1784 where it is shown located on the corner of St. George's Lane now Excise St. (RCB Ms. 151; Murtagh 1994, Map 7(a) and 7 (b)).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 06 December 2013
References
Murtagh, H. (ed.) 1994 Athlone. Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 6. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Cluniac monksunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Innunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.