Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Moated site
Shanganagh Beg, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shanganagh Beg
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96082, -6.99427
- SMR number
- LA020-025----
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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 (GB90.BW.15) shows cropmark of a complex monument, which may represent a double moated site, comprising two conjoined rectangular enclosures each defined by a fosse; a small rectangular annexe, defined by a narrower fosse, is located on the southern of the monument. The monument is set within a series of linear cropmarks indicating a related rectangular field system. First recorded as a positive cropmark in June 1990. Faint traces of this monument are visible on the ASI website. Part of a cropmark landscape (LA020-026/027/028/029).
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 23/11/09
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 15 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.