Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Grenan, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grenan
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82343, -7.35743
- SMR number
- LA035-090----
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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
Aerial photograph (GB90.CE.18) shows cropmark of an incomplete curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse. First recorded as a positive cropmark in July 1990. The potential enclosure is cut by the modern field boundary.
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 14 December 2009
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 14 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.