Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Killougher, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killougher
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58795, -6.25717
- SMR number
- DU004-096----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a large arable field the N boundary of which forms the townland boundary with Hazardstown, stream to W also forms townland boundary with Kitchenstown. Cropmark of rectangular-shaped earthwork (DU004-095----) 115m to NNW. Positive cropmarks visible on aerial image and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021 indicates the presence of a palimpsest of subsurface features, enclosures and linear cropmarks in this large field. In the centre of the field there is the cropmark of a circular shaped area (diam. c. 22m) defined by a cropmark which is transected at S by the cropmark of a sub-circular shaped area (DU004-097----). Outline of cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 21/07/2021. Cropmark of possible conjoined enclosures.
See attached drone aerial images courtesy of Ian Lennon and Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien based on details provided by Ian Lennon
Date of upload: 27 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.