Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Bolinarra, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bolinarra
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36989, -7.81369
- SMR number
- WM036-023001-
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
Situated in pasture, with good views in all directions. The Athlone to Clara railway line is within 10m to NE. Depicted on the first ed. OS 6-inch map as a long roughly oval-shaped enclosure attached to N side of castle (WM036-023----). Monument described in 1973 as a roughly circular-shaped mound of earth and stone which is largely obscured by scrub. The outline of the mound is quite irregular. and the probable remains of the castle (WM036-023----) stand on the S half. Monument is obscured today by dense scrub on Digital Globe aerial photography. The earthwork shown on the first ed. OS map may have been an earth and stone bawn of the stone castle. The railway line now runs across the area where this possible bawn was depicted on the first ed. OS map.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 29 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.