Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Concentric enclosure
Ballynowlan, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynowlan
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03799, -7.15939
- SMR number
- LA014-101----
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
Cropmark of circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 39m) enclosed by a large enclosure (approx. diam. 77m) the W quadrant of which has been incorporated into a field boundary is visible on Google earth aerial imagery.
See attached image taken from Google Earth aerial photographs taken 02/07/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of upload: 09 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.