Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - medieval
Ballyshaneduff Or The Derries, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyshaneduff Or The Derries
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- The Derries
- Coordinates
- 53.10030, -7.14948
- SMR number
- LA009-015----
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Shown on 5 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
No surface remains of house, which in any case was built 1810, except for traces of foundation. This was supposedly built on the site of an old house of the O'Dempsey's which according to Bence-Jones was remodelled in the 19th century (Bence-Jones 1978, 28). Described the house as consisting of 2 principal fronts, one of them low and nearly 200 feet in length, with battlements and pointed doors and windows, the other front higher and with a square tower. Old arch opposite hall door, surviving from the O'Dempsey house. Could the square tower be the remains of O'Dempsey's medieval Castle?
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.