Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Oldtown (Clanmallagh By.), County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldtown (Clanmallagh By.)
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.80305, -7.49500
- SMR number
- LA034-032003-
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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
A rectilinear-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 81m N-S; c. 57m E-W) with rounded corners is visible as a cropmark on Google Earth aerial imagery immediately N of a religious house (LA034-032001-) and may be the precinct boundary of the monastic site. The S side of this enclosure is barely visible as a curvilinear cropmark on aerial imagery to S of the abbey building.
See attached Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28 June 2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly based on information provided by Simon Dowling
Date of upload: 2 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.