Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Emo Park, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Emo Park
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.10314, -7.19015
- SMR number
- LA009-063----
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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
Located in tillage field on the demesne lands of Emo Court in an area known locally as 'Killeenatogher'. Killeenatogher church site (LA009-005----) 260m to NW. Semi-circular-shaped cropmark of W half of possible enclosure (approx. diam. 55m) bisected by a modern field boundary running N-S is visible on aerial image taken June 2020. Could be the remains of a levelled ringfort or possibly a designed landscape feature such as a tree-ring associated with Emo Castle demesne. The field has several other cropmarks some of which relate to the landscaping of the demesne lands belonging to Emo Castle (Court).
See attached NMS drone image taken June 2020 showing the cropmark
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 25 June 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Road - unclassified togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.