Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Grange Upper, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Upper
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Castle
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.01674, -7.19228
- SMR number
- LA014-038----
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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 1563 map of Leix and Offaly (Hore 1863, f.p. 345). Situated in undulating countryside. No visible surface remains.
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
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
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.