Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Dovecote
Kilbeggan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeggan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM038-017011-
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The National Monuments Service's description
In 1618 an inquisition into the estate of the deceased Oliver Lord Lambert listed a 'columbar' or dovecote on his lands in the townland of Kilbeggan (Anon 1826, 56). The precise location of this dovecote has not been identified. It is possible that the dovecote may have formed part of the monastic estate of the Cistercian abbey of Kilbeggan that was granted to Sir Oliver Lambert in 1606 (Erck 1846, 268).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 April 2014
References
Erck, J.C. (ed.) 1846-52 A repertory of the inrolments of the patent rolls of chancery in Ireland commencing with the reign of King James I, vol. 1, parts 1-2. Dublin.
Anon. 1826 Inquisitionum in officio rotulorum cancellariae Hiberniae asservatarum, repertorium, vol. I. Dublin. George and John Grierson and Martin Keene, Printers.