Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Morett, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Morett
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Rathnalulagh (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.07317, -7.19879
- SMR number
- LA008-020----
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
The S portion of a possible rectangular earthwork (C c. 50m SE-SW) is hachured on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map and indicated only as a field fence on later editions No visible surface remains.
Archaeological testing in the vicinity of this monument was carried out by Martin Doody in 2003 under excavation licence no. 03E0642.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.