Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ballintogher, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballintogher
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA009-039----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated village within OS sheet number 5 mentioned in 1571 Elizabethan land grant to Owen mac Hugh O'Dempsie although the Earle of Kildare does lay claim to the villages of 'Ballycarroll, Ballyteighduffe, Ballyodin alias Boydonstowne, Dirryfunchin alias Dirryfunchior, Ballyorlade (Abhalghort) alias Orchardston (Ullard), Ballinurcher, Clomany and Kilmorhcil , as parcell of the said Earl's Manor of Leigh' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, p. 52). Townland of Ballinurcher may be townland of Ballintogher which is o six inch OS 6-inch map number 09.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007