Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Cashel (upperwoods By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel (upperwoods By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Bealach Mor, Moy Dala
- Coordinates
- 52.94993, -7.58508
- SMR number
- LA022-005005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Remains of part of the old road from Castletown to Borris-in-Ossory passed midway between the 'caiseal' (LA022-005001-) and 'Brandybush fort' (LA022-0060 (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 180). Laneway here now.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.