Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Athlone. You may be able to find further references to Athlone in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Athlone	market town	Bartholomew
ATHLONE	a borough, market and post-town, and an important military station	Lewis:Ireland

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Athlone within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Charles Wesley	Jan: 15 - Apr. 29, 1748: Ireland, Wales and meeting future wife	4
John Wesley	1746-8: Severe Weather; Ireland; Wesley's Protest against Lawlessness	4
Charles Wesley	Sept. 1- Dec. 31, 1748: Ireland and central Wales	2
George Head	Ireland: Roscommon	2
George Head	Roscommon to Galway	2
John Wesley	1749-50: Wesley and the Soldiers; In Ireland and Wales Again; Wesley Burned in Effigy	2
George Head	Galway	1
John Wesley	1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost	1
Arthur Young	21st to 31st August 1776: Roscommon, Sligo and Mayo	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer