Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Graigueavoice, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graigueavoice
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 52.81930, -7.45134
- SMR number
- LA035-026001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A natural hill with rock outcrop protruding. Quarrying has taken place at NE. Not an archaeological monument.
A previous report describes the site as a rath consisting of a 'circular area surrounded by a very low earthen bank with no trace of a possible fosse. The maximum height of the bank is 0.35m. The diameter is 31.5m. Two small, low banked earthen enclosures abutt the rath on the east and south-west. The larger of the two, on the east measures 24.0m by 11.40m and the bank height is 0.30m. The smaller enclosure measures 13.3mm by 8.50m and has a similar bank height. Projecting from the end of this enclosure is a further bank running off in a south-westerly direction for approximately 10m before it fades out; this is very low, being no more than 0.24m high. The land to the south-east, south and south-west of this complex is very uneven and much disturbed, so that while there might be more to the field system (LA035-026002-), it cannot be determined with any confidence' (Candon 1987, 30).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.