Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Excavation - miscellaneous
Ballydavis, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydavis
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.04982, -7.23672
- SMR number
- LA013-115----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
New features discovered in 2003 during excavations of the M7 Heath-Mayfield motorway scheme by Colum Hardy for V.J. Keeley under licence number 03E0905 following previous centre line investigation by Ros O Maolduin under licence number 03E0128.
In Area 2 several linear ditches were uncovered in three trenches that were located 117m E of the pits (LA013-114) (Bennett 2006, 286).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.