What is recorded here

Kilballyowen's demesne still holds an oblong shadow near Baggotstown, wide enough for a hundred paces and deep enough to swallow a cart. Maps drew it as ordinary woodlands while fields cut through its eastern edge, yet the shape resisted forgetting. Perhaps people planted rings there to mark time or hide love from tax collectors, giving the estate a living boundary before stone walls existed.

On the demesne lands of Kilballyowen House and castle site (LI032-124----) 500m to NW, 200m N of a townland boundary with Baggotstown. Burial ground (LI040-009----) lies 350m to SW. Depicted as a woodland plantation (133m NE-SW; 58m NW-SE) on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch and not depicted as an antiquity. Only the E half of the woodland plantation is depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map where it has been bisected by a field drain. Woodland plantation is visible as a roughly oblong-shaped area (140m NE-SW; 65m NW-SE) of a wood-covered area across the E portion and by a cropmark defining the W portion, as seen on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/04/2006. See attached Google Earth orthoimage Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 27 November 2020

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