Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Ballybrittas, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrittas
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.11418, -7.14264
- SMR number
- LA009-010002-
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5 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)
- 1799 · 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
No trace of levelled castle (LA009-010001-) located to the W of Glenmalyre House. Glenmalyre House appears to be standing on an earthwork which is contemporary with the house and is post-1700 in date, other earthworks in the area are associated with the landscaping of Glenmalyre Demesne. There are no medieval earthworks depicted that are associated with the medieval castle.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 08 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- House - fortified houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.