Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knightstown Or Ballinriddery, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knightstown Or Ballinriddery
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10536, -7.26151
- SMR number
- LA008-004----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
No surface evidence of levelled enclosure situated on low-lying level terrain. Field tilled and sown with crop. Cropmark of enclosure identified from Air Corps aerial photograph taken c. 1950 (AC 674-75).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyard1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.