Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Graigue (slievemargy By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigue (slievemargy By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- SMR number
- LA032-030----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Unlocated settlement within townland, described in the OS letters as 'Traditionalists say that there was a town at Slety, the extent of which they pretend to be able to point out, but it is very hard to depend on them, though I have no doubt that Slety was one time a village' (O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 2, p. 13). Possibly there was an earlier settlement in the modern village of Graigue, as described by Feehan as ; The town of Graigue is esentially one long street extending for about a kilometer parallel tot he west bank of the Barrow. It has already attained a considerbale size by the mid-seventeenth century, when it ha a population of 106 families' (Feehan 1983, 387)
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007