Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Grallagh, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grallagh
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55342, -6.32945
- SMR number
- DU004-019----
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Shown on 4 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 in pasture on a low hilltop (317') with extensive views of the surrounding countryside. An aerial photograph taken in 1977 (BKS 2736240/39) shows an impressive cropmark of a levelled trivallate ringfort (max. diam. c. 80m). Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 31 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.