Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Field system
Shanganagh Beg, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanganagh Beg
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96528, -6.99132
- SMR number
- LA020-013001-
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1942 · Sheet 349 - Third Edition (Layered) - Ordnance Survey of Ireland, One inch to the mile… (National Library of Scotland)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photograph (GB89.X.17) shows cropmark of fosses delineating a rectilinear field system associated with a sub-circular enclosure.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.