Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Coolbanagher, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolbanagher
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.07067, -7.22925
- SMR number
- LA013-007----
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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
A subcircular area (max. dims. c. 50m N-S, 38m E-W) defined by a low earthen bank (Wth c. 2.2m, int. H c. 0.1m, ext. H c. 0.4m) at S, W and N, and by a scarp at E. The site is destroyed at SE. A shallow fosse (Wth c. 2.1m) is visible from S-E. No evidence of original entrance.
Listed in the Register of Historic Monuments as a Ringfort on the 25/10/1984.
Land in the vicinity of the ringfort was excavated by Thaddeus Breen in 1996 under licence no. 96E3 13. The line of the Portlaoise Water Supply Improvement pipeline was excavated along the side of the road opposite this ringfort. Despite the proximity of the ringfort, no disturbance whatever of the natural soil was found.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.