Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldglass, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldglass
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.85582, -7.47982
- SMR number
- LA029-040----
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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
Site of a sand pit, nothing here of archaeological importance. Site identified by Candon as a ringfort (Candon 1987, 23). Possible enclosure indicated on the 1838 edition of the OS six-inch map where it is depicted as a circular feature located in an area of woodland. This feature is partially indicated on the current edition of the OS six-inch map. A modern farmshed has been subsequently built on the site of this feature which had previously been quarried as a sand-pit.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.