What is recorded here
There is no paper file in the ASI archive for this monument. Located on the Westmeath RMP map within a wooded part of Ballynagall demesne. It is not represented on either the first edition or current edition OS 6-inch maps. Listed in the SMR (1985) as 'Tower (site of)' and in the RMP (1996) as 'Tower'. No surface remains visible of any tower or structure on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM012-119
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- Angela Hawkesworth Smyth, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- fr:Gavigan:Knockdrin_a.jpg/Knockdrin_a.jpg, Wikimedia Commons · GFDL
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Bridget Neville, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Brian Shaw, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Rev William Falkiner (Life time: d 1910), Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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