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
- 52.80620, -7.50042
- SMR number
- LA034-053----
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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
Cropmark of an oval-shaped enclosure (diam. c. 40m NE-SW; c. 32m NW-SE) with an entrance (Wth c. 5m) in the NE quadrant, visible on Google Earth aerial photograph taken 28/06/2018.
See attached image taken from Google Earth
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 28 January 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.