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No surface evidence of any ironworking in field marked on OS 6-inch map, field in spring wheat when visited. Site of seventeenth century Ironworks set up by Sir Charles Coote located in fork between Owenass River and River Barrow (Feehan 1983, 338). The Mountrath works were located in the townland of Forest, south of the modern town, in the angle made by the Nore and Mountrath Rivers, this piece of land still bears the name of 'Forgeland' (Feehan 1983, 338).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
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