Settlement cluster in Ballyclider, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Unlocated settlement within townland, mentioned as the 'towne and lands of Ballyclayder' in an inquisition of the lands of Robert Pigott of the Disarte in Queen's Co. taken at Maryborough on the 7th September 1607, whow received these lands in the 19th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1577).(O'Flanagan 1933, vol.1, p. 97) Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA013-069

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