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Ballycorman, County Laois, Ireland

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Townland
Ballycorman
County
Laois
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.93777, -7.05613
SMR number
LA025-065----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Shown on 5 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 roughly oval enclosure (dims. c. 59m NW-SE; c. 38m NE-SW) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The enclosure is indicated as a small field on the 1st ed. OS 6-inch map and on the subsequent revision. However, the curving nature of the enclosure appears at odds with the rectilinear nature of the surround fields, and the field boundary running along the SE quadrant kinks out to incorporating the enclosure, suggesting it pre-dates the 19th-century field system. There is a large enclosure (LA025-063----) c. 200m to the NE and another (LA025-064----) c. 300m to the SE.

See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 9 April 2019

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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