Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Knockbaun, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockbaun
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91033, -7.19963
- SMR number
- LA024-094----
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
Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 23m) enclosed by low bank and wide outer fosse transected at S by field boundary running E-W visible on Digital Globe imagery taken 2011-13. Outline of earthwork visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/03/2010.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 08/03/2010
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Seán Murray
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.