Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Rahanavannagh, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahanavannagh
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Blandsfort Ho.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Blandsfort House
- Coordinates
- 52.93017, -7.28389
- SMR number
- LA024-024----
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4 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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Blandsfort House was built in 1715 on the ruins of an O'More fortress (Bence-Jones 1978, 43). No visible remains of the earlier O'More fortress.
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
References
Bence-Jones, M. 1978 Burke's Guide to Country Houses: Volume 1 Ireland. London. Burke's Peerage Ltd.
Nearby in the register
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.