Cannonswood Cross Roads
Cannonswood Cross Roads is a locality in County Laois, Leinster. Cannonswood Cross Roads is situated nearby to the locality Aghmacart Cross, as well as near Maynebog Bridge.Places of Interest
Highlights include Aghmacart Church and Cullahill Castle.
Cullahill Castle
Ruins
Cullahill Castle was the principal stronghold of the MacGillapatricks of Upper Ossory built around 1425 and destroyed around 1650. Cullahill Castle takes its name from an ancient forest that covered Cullahill Mountain and extended down to Cullahill village. Cullahill Castle is situated 3½ km southeast of Cannonswood Cross Roads.
Cullahill Castle chapel
Ruins
Cullahill Castle chapel is a ruins, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Cannonswood Cross Roads.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cullohill and Clogh.
Cullohill
Village
Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois in the midlands of Ireland, with a population of 1770 in 2016. The abbey was Cistercian, founded in 1183 in the valley of the River Nore, and the original settlement grew up around it. Cullohill is situated 3 km southeast of Cannonswood Cross Roads.
Clogh
Hamlet
Clough is a village in the civil parish of Bordwell in County Laois. It lies at a point where several townlands and two civil parishes meet. One of the churches of the Roman Catholic parish of Aghaboe, St. Clogh is situated 5 km north of Cannonswood Cross Roads.
Rathdowney
Town
Rathdowney or Rathdowny is a small town in southwest County Laois, Ireland. It lies some 32 km southwest of Portlaoise in the Irish Midlands, at the point where the R433 regional road from Abbeyleix to Templemore is crossed by the R435 from Borris-in-Ossory to Johnstown. Rathdowney is situated 6 km west of Cannonswood Cross Roads.
Cannonswood Cross Roads
- Type: Locality
- Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.84097° or 52° 50′ 28″ north
Longitude
-7.5016° or 7° 30′ 6″ west
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Open location code
9C4JRFRX+99
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
GeoNames ID
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