Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Corraun, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corraun
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.92179, -7.51636
- SMR number
- LA022-019008-
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
The town of Aghaboe was burned by Dermot MacGilpatrick on the 13th May 1346. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 73, 74). Earthworks between Abbey (LA022-019001-) and motte (LA022-019007-) may be remains of town of Aghaboe. According to Carrigan the town principally lay to the west of the abbey (LA022-019001-) in the area known as Pigeon Park of Currawn, where according to Carrigan 'extensive foundations still remain beneath the surface' (Carrigan 1905, vol. 2, 47).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.