Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Bellair Or Ballyard, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bellair Or Ballyard
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33684, -7.73669
- SMR number
- OF007-015----
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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
No surface remains visible. Described in 1977 as a destroyed earthwork of which 'There is no trace of an antiquity here now. There is an area of gently sloping ground, facing south' (SMR file 1977). Depicted on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular grove of trees on the landscaped grounds of Bellair House which is located 200m to the NE. Probably a tree-ring associated with the landscaping of the demesne of Bellair House.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload/revsion: 20 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.