Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Park Or Dunamase, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Park Or Dunamase
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sallys bower
- Coordinates
- 53.03129, -7.22178
- SMR number
- LA013-051002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated on S-facing slope on high ground NW of deserted medieval village (LA013-051001-). Slightly dished circular area (diam. c. 17m) defined by an earth and stone bank (H c. 1m) and external fosse. Fosse (Wth c. 3m) best defined at N. Entrance at NE. Sally's Bower has been previously described as a tree ring (Urban Survey 1986, 24).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Deer parkunder 1 mi
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.