Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballyroan (cullenagh By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyroan (cullenagh By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.93537, -7.31518
- SMR number
- LA024-093----
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
In tillage. A square enclosure (dims. c. 30m NNE-SSW and ENE-WSW) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. A field boundary runs roughly N-S through the E portion of the enclosure. The SE corner is faintly visible as a cropmark in the adjacent to the E. There is a moated site (LA024-019----) c. 680m to the NW.
See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.