Landed Estates
University of Galway

Oldtown

Estate(s)
Townland Skeagh More
Civil Parish Rathconrath
PLU Mullingar
DED Skeagh 58
County Westmeath
Barony Rathconrath
Description Oldtown is named on the first edition OS map and the 25 inch map. A two-storey, three-bay house built by the Banon family. Occupied by J Banon in 1837 and at the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) by Thomas Bannon who held the property valued at £13 from James Fallon. Oldtown was for sale in the Encumbered Estates Court in 1851. The house, described as a comfortable two-story house, fit for the residence of a gentleman, was occupied by Anne, Frances and Maria Banon, (Sale Rental 19 Dec 1851) and was bought by James Fallon, a wine and spirit merchant of Dublin. James Fallon of Oldtown is recorded among the 1876 landowners of the county. The Fallon family were still resident at the beginning of the 20th century.

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