Ankers Bower (also Anker's Bower,[2] Ankers' Bower,[3] Ankersbower,[4] or Anchor's Bower[5]) is a townland and hill in St. Mary's civil parish in the barony of Brawny, County Westmeath, Ireland.[6] It is partly within the former urban district of Athlone.[4][7] The name may derive from John Ankers, who was vicar of St. Mary's in 1608.[3]
Ankers Bower | |
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Townland | |
.jpg) Shops along R446 road in the northern part of Ankers Bower | |
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| Coordinates: 53°25′12″N 7°55′32″W / 53.420°N 7.9255°W[1] | |
| Civil parish | St. Mary's |
| County | County Westmeath |
| Country | Ireland |
Population and area
editThe townland of Ankersbower, which has an area of 58.38 acres (23.63 ha), was uninhabited in 1841 and 1851, and had a population of 60 in 1861.[8] The decennial censuses of Ireland from 1841 to 1911 included demographic data broken down by townland, except that from 1871 the area under the jurisdiction of town commissioners was combined into a single figure, with any rural portion of a townland listed separately. The rural portion of Ankersbower in 1871–1911 was uninhabited; its area was 21.96875 acres (8.89044 ha) in 1891 and 22.7625 acres (9.2117 ha) in 1911.[4][9] A 2003 statutory instrument, the Athlone Town Boundary Alteration Order, 2003, included more of the townland within the Athlone town boundary;[7] the Local Government Reform Act 2014 abolished Athlone town council.[10]
Sitting largely within the town of Athlone in the Athlone East Urban electoral division, the townland had a population of 341 as of the 2011 census.[11]
References
edit- ^ "Map centred on Ankers Court". Google Maps. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ "25-inch Map centred on Anker's Bower". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey Ireland. c. 1912. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ^ a b Langrishe, Richard (1890). "The Walls of Athlone (in "Proceedings and Papers")". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Fifth Series, Vol. 1 (3): 184. JSTOR 25507728.
- ^ a b c "Table VII. Area, houses, out-offices and farm steadings, and population, together with the valuation of each poor law union (or superintendent registrar's district), dispensary (or registrar's) district, district electoral division, townland, etc., in 1911; Athlone Union; Athlone No. 1 District". Census of Ireland 1911; Area, houses, and population; Leinster, Ireland; County of Westmeath. Command papers. Vol. Cd-6049-X. London: HMSO. 1912. p. 6.
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Appendix: Boundaries of the Cities and Boroughs in Ireland". Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ^ "Ankers Bower". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
- ^ a b "S.I. No. 704/2003 - Athlone Town Boundary Alteration Order, 2003". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ^ "County of Westmeath; Baronies, parishes, townlands and towns; Barony of Brawny". Census of Ireland 1861; Part I: Area, population and number of houses; Vol. I: Province of Leinster. Dublin: Alexander Thom for HMSO. 1863. p. 259.
- ^ "Table VII. Area, houses, out-offices and farm steadings, and population, together with the valuation of each parish, townland, and township in 1891; Barony of Brawny; St. Mary's Parish". Census of Ireland 1891; Part I: Area, houses, and population; Vol. I: Leinster; No.10: Westmeath. Command papers. Vol. C-6515-IX. Dublin: Alexander Thom for HMSO. 1891. p. 869.
- ^ "Local Government Reform Act 2014, Section 24". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 5 February 2015.; and
"S.I. No. 216/2014 - Local Government Reform Act 2014 (Transfer Date) Order 2014". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 5 February 2015. - ^ "CD172 - Westmeath Population by Private Households, Occupied and Vacancy Rate". data.gov.ie. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
Ankers Bower, Athlone East Urban, Co. Westmeath [..] 341