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
- 52.80327, -7.49623
- SMR number
- LA034-056----
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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
The W side of a curvilinear enclosure (diam. N-S c. 33m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018, identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The E side of the enclosure may be incorporated in the field boundaries which kink out, possibly following the line of the enclosure. A religious house (LA034-032001-) and ringfort (LA034-032002-) are located c. 70m to the SE. In tillage.
See attached Google Earth image taken 28/06/2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly based on information supplied by Simon Dowling
Date of upload: 2 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.