Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Kilmorony, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmorony
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94624, -6.96433
- SMR number
- LA026-044----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Aerial photograph (GB91.EB.30) shows cropmark of a curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. The aerial photographs were taken on 15 July 1991. The plough-levelled monument is cut across by three modern field boundaries. A motte and bailey castle (LA026-006-) is located 390m to the NE.
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G. F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revision: 13 December 2010
Nearby in the register
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.