Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballycarroll (maryborough East By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycarroll (maryborough East By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cromwells Lines
- Coordinates
- 53.02995, -7.20092
- SMR number
- LA013-054----
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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
Marked on the 1841 and 1909 editions of the OS 6-inch map, as a circular trivallate enclosure (int. diam. c. 25m. Max. diam. c. 80m). Now ploughed out. Vague outline visible in grass colouring, possibly a ringfort.
This site is described as a battlefield within townland, described in the History of Queens County as 'Rising over a hill, called Slieve Bawn, and near Kilteale, may be found remarkably high entrenchments, with concentric fosses and dykes, now overgrown with hawthorns and briars. Those entrenchments are thought to have been erected by Colonel Hewson and Reynolds, when they besieged Dunamase in 1650. The trenches are fully 8 ft. below the upper part of the the ditches.' (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, 272).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.