Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Town defences
Mountrath (maryborough West By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountrath (maryborough West By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.00147, -7.47168
- SMR number
- LA017-033003-
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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
A map of Mountrath (LA017-033) dating from 1730 shows the outline of possible defenses (LA017-033003-) on the east side of the town, a projecting line of boundary on the extreme E side of the town on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map may follow the original line of the town defences (SMR File R. Loeber 1995). On the current edition of the OS six-inch maps the property boundary at the rear of the houses facing onto the E side of the Main St. kicks out forming a triangular shaped projection similar to an earthen bastion. This projecting spur may following the original line of the town defences indicated on the map of Mountrath drawn by Thomas Moland in 1730 (NLI n.3947, p.3618). The Mountrath River appears to have formed the defensive element of the town on the S and E sides. The earthen defences of the town may have run off the N and S end of the Mountrath River forming a possible earthen enclosure around the town of Mountrath in the 17th century.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 17 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Meeting-houseunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.