Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cairn - unclassified
Ballymaddock (stradbally By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymaddock (stradbally By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LA014-049----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Reference to a possible cairn around the base of which a regular circle, indicated by a darker colour in the grass, was visible (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276).
Unlocated cairn within townland, described by Roe as a carn containing human bones, now destroyed (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276). Described in the History of Queens County in an adjoining field to a rath in Ballymaddock there is 'a sort of elevation , having some disjointed stones on the summit, is to be seen, and around the cone, in a very regular circle, the grass always partakes of a similar dark colour, about the months of June and July. This is thought to have been a place of interment, and the upper surface somewhate resembles a dilapidated cairn (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007