Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - 16th/17th century
Grange Beg, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange Beg
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91802, -7.60098
- SMR number
- LA022-014----
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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
Marked 'Grange Ho. (in Ruins) on the 1841 ed OS 6-inch map. In undulating countryside. A rectangular house (L c. 9.9m NW-SE, Wth c. 6.3m NE-SW) constructed of rubble limestone. Two storeys high with a third storey or attic in SE gable. Entrance, now blocked, in SW wall. Projecting chimney breast and tall chimney stack on NE wall and remains of a cornice. Internal dividing wall running NW-SE. Mentioned in OS letters as an old castle in ruins in the townland of Grangebeg (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, p. 15).
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
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.