Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque
Ballylehane Lower, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylehane Lower
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92184, -7.05930
- SMR number
- LA025-037----
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5 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)
- 1942 · Sheet 349 - Third Edition (Layered) - Ordnance Survey of Ireland, One inch to the mile… (National Library of Scotland)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Reference to a castle (LA025-028) here (O'Hanlon and O'Leary 1981, 251, 303). Built into the gate-pier of the field where the castle stood is an early 17th century Armorial panel of the O'Conors of Offaly (JKAS 1910 Vol. VI, 241-2). No visible surface remains.
Described in 1910 as 'a limestone mural slab (23 inches high by 34 inches in length), formerly in Ballylehane Castle, in the Parish of Killabban and Queens County, an now built into a gate-pier of the field in which a fragment of the castle ruin now stands. On the slab the crest is shown as a dove-like bird; there are two lion or leopard like supporters (which are unusual, except in a peer's coat-of-arms); and below the shield, on a scroll, is the war cry of the Leinster O'Connors - Falvagh-Abo (I.e. Offaly to victory). This slab belongs to the early seventeenth century' (JKAS 1910, VI, 241-2).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 07 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.