Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Metalworking site
Townparks (tinnahinch By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (tinnahinch By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13191, -7.31319
- SMR number
- LA004-003----
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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
No surface evidence of any ironworking in field marked on OS 6-inch map, field in spring wheat when visited. Site of seventeenth century Ironworks set up by Sir Charles Coote located in fork between Owenass River and River Barrow (Feehan 1983, 338). The Mountrath works were located in the townland of Forest, south of the modern town, in the angle made by the Nore and Mountrath Rivers, this piece of land still bears the name of 'Forgeland' (Feehan 1983, 338).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Historic town1 mi
- Church1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.