Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Morett, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Morett
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.07832, -7.19886
- SMR number
- LA008-043----
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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
New monument uncovered during excavation by Eamonn Cotter under licence number 03E0461 in advance of the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme.
A second, smaller enclosure (diam. 8.5m) defined by a ditch (Wth 0.51m; D 0.12m) was located approx. 30m to the SW of the ditch-barrow (LA008-042). A large iron axehead was found near the centre of the enclosure (Bennett 2006, 293-4).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.