Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
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
- 52.96122, -6.99484
- SMR number
- LA020-028----
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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 rectilinear enclosure defined by double fosses located in close proximity to a complex rectangular monument which may represent a double moated site (LA020-025). First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The double fosses are more apparent in the thin narrow field. In the AY photographs taken in June 1990 this feature appears similar to a field system, but in the BW photographs an enclosure seems more convincing. PPart of a cropmark landscape (LA020-025/026/027/029).
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
- Moated siteunder 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.