Big Wood

Big Wood is a forest in , . Big Wood is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aghmacart Church and Cullahill Castle.

Church
Photo: kevin higgins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ruins
Photo: Krigh, CC BY 3.0.
was the principal stronghold of the MacGillapatricks of Upper Ossory built around 1425 and destroyed around 1650. takes its name from an ancient forest that covered Cullahill Mountain and extended down to village.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cullohill and Ballacolla.

Village
Photo: Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abbeyleix is a town in 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.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, officially Ballycolla, is a village in , . It sits at the crossroads of the R433 and R434 regional roads, 8 km southwest of and 4 km northeast of junction 3 of the M8 motorway.

Hamlet
Clough is a village in the civil parish of Bordwell in . 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.

Big Wood

Latitude
52.8539° or 52° 51′ 14″ north
Longitude
-7.4949° or 7° 29′ 42″ west
Open location code
9C4JVG34+G2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 64733112
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wood
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