Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA014-052----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Not far from Ballymaddock Castle, a fine old rath may yet be seen and in a direction leading to the gate, by which the field is entered from the road. In this place also, springing corn or grass is noticed in Summer to have assumed a tinge of deeper verdure and of higher growth that in other parts of this same field. Human remains in have been discovered there, and many think the place must have furnished a site for some battle, not known in historic records (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, vol. 1, 276; Dooley, 31).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007