Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Parknahown, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Parknahown
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.81521, -7.49054
- SMR number
- LA034-060----
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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
In tillage. The arc of a possible circular enclosure (chord L c. 32m; chord H c. 9m) visible as a cropmark on Google Earth (imagery date 28 June 2018), identified and reported by Simon Dowling. The cropmark is evident as a deep fosse, visible from NW-N-E, with a possible faint portion visible in the W. The enclosure appears to have been truncated by a road which runs roughly E-W through the S portion. Two other enclosures have been identified from cropmarks in the immediate vicinity, one (LA034-023----) is located c. 90m to the SW and the other (LA034-059----) is c. 150m to the SSW.
See attached Google Earth image taken 28 June 2018
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.