Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Derrybrock, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrybrock
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Ballymanus Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballymanus Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.03984, -7.08357
- SMR number
- LA014-036----
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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
Shown on the 1563 map of Leix and Offaly (Hore 1863, f.p. 345). In a low-lying area beside river. It was dependent on Dunamase (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 223). No visible surface remains. The line of the Grand Canal is depicted running through the site of the castle on the various editions of the OS 6-inch maps.
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
References
O'Hanlon, Rev. J. and O'Leary, Rev. E. 1907 (Reprint 1981) History of the Queen's county, vol. 1. Kilkenny. Roberts Books Ltd.
Hore, H.F. 1863 Notes on a fac simile of an ancient map of Leix, Ofaly, Irry, Clanmalier, Iregan and Slievemargy, preserved in the British Museum. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 7, 345-72.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.