Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Westown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Westown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57547, -6.30323
- SMR number
- DU004-077----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located towards the NW boundary of an arable field. Site located c. 818m SE of the Delvin River, which forms the Dublin/Meath county boundary, and c. 601m SSE of a barrow in Westown (DU004-005----). Site bisected NW-SE by a later field boundary, now cleared (post c. 2012). Positive cropmarks visible on Apple Maps coverage (June 2018) indicate the a subcircular enclosure (ext. dims c. 38m N–S; c. 50m E–W) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 3m). There are no clear indications of a gap through the ditch. An arrangement of 3 smaller subrectilinear enclosures can be seen extending from the E perimeter of the primary enclosure.
Compiled by: Tom Condit
Uploaded on: 27 April
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Barrow - stepped barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.