Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Rowans Big, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rowans Big
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56984, -6.21445
- SMR number
- DU004-017----
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Shown on 5 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
Situated on a gentle E-facing slope under tillage west of the M1. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 4.507/8) shows a roughly circular cropmark (diam. c. 20m) of an enclosure with an opening in the SW quadrant. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Update by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 31 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Burnt pitunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.