Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Pass, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Pass
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.97801, -7.27113
- SMR number
- LA018-018----
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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
Not marked on the 1841 or 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch maps. Situated in a mill, in marshy low-lying ground, beside a stream. Masonry from Kilvahan Church (LA018-017001-) was used in the construction of a nearby tuck milll (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1907, 189). Six cut and roughly dressed stones with rough pocking and a number of large undressed stones, are visible in S wall of mill; alos a cut stone in the NW corner.
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
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.