Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballythomas, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballythomas
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.05395, -7.16457
- SMR number
- LA014-010----
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
Marked on the 1841 edition of the OS 6-inch map and indicated by a curving field fence on the 1909 edition Reference to a rath here (Comerford 1886, vol. 3, 282). Situated in undulating countryside with views of Killone Hill to the W. Nearby ringfort (LA014-011) visible to the S. Poorly preserved enclosure almost totally levelled and now defined by a scarp(max. H 1.6m) from SSW-E. No evidence of fosse or original entrance.
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
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.