Ballymahon

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On the N bank of the Inny River, at a bridging point. A land grant in 1620 to James Mc William Ferrall included the 'castle [LF027-003004-], town and lands of Ballymahan' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 466). A cluster of houses is depicted on the Down Survey (1655-6) map of Rathcline barony (NLI, MS 719) on the N bank of the river to the E of a bridge (LF027-003003-). The town was described in 1682 as 'the market town called Ballymahon where there is a wooden bridge over the river' (Whelan 2001, 6). The Civil Survey records a mill (LF027-003005-) and the ‘ruines of a castle with some chimney houses and Irish creats, alsoe some chimney houses with Irish creats dispersed in several places' (Simington 1961, vol. 10, 48). The ruined houses along the Green Lane may be the oldest buildings in the town (Whelan 2001, 6). Archaeological test excavations prior to the construction of a housing development to the rear of the buildings at the SW side of Main Street in 2005 (Ó Donnchadha 2005), and subsequent unlicenced monitoring of the groundworks (Doherty and Doherty 2005) yielded no archaeological features or artifacts.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LF027-003006

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