Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Bracklone, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bracklone
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA005-020----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated town within townland mentioned in 1571 Elizabethan land grant to Owen mac Hugh O'Dempsie. Town of Portarlington was previously known as the town of Cooletodderie as mentioned in Elizabethan land grant to Owen mac Hugh O'Dempsie and described as containing 80 acres, which lieth southwest from the River of the Barough, and abutteth upon the town and lands called Bracklone East. The towne and lands of Bracklone contayning 20 acres' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, p. 51).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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