Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Brittas (tinnahinch By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas (tinnahinch By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.14865, -7.53003
- SMR number
- LA002-028----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Cropmark of designed landscape feature or possible tree-ring (diam. approx. 72m) on the estate of Brittas Demesne the curving outline of which is partially indicated as a tree-plantation on the OSi historic maps is visible on OSi orthophotos.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on information provided by Sarah Sherlock
Date of upload: 1 June 2022
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.