Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Ballygeehin Lower, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballygeehin Lower
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.89916, -7.43880
- SMR number
- LA029-007----
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4 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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Depicted on current edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (approx. dims. 47m N-S; 48m E-W). Shown on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees in a manner similar to a landscape feature possibly assoicated with Ballygeehin House to the SW. Could be a ringfort re-used as a landscape feature or a landscape feature of 18th century date associated with the landscaping carried out by the occupants of Ballygeehin House. On the first edition of the OS 6-inch maps the surveyors did not marke the site as an antiquity.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.