Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Milverton, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milverton
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.56642, -6.11690
- SMR number
- DU005-032----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is a tradition of burials in 'stone coffins' being discovered at Milverton. The site is known traditionally as the 'Danes burial ground'. The field has been incorporated into Milverton Quarry since 1970 and there is no visible surface trace (Campion 1969, 39; Healy 1975, 18; Cahill and Sikora 2011, 472). Cropmark of circular-shaped area (diam. c. 30m) transected at W by field boundary which is defined by two ditches visible on Google Earth orthoimage. This cropmark may be the remains of the monument known locally as the 'Danes burial ground'.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 12/07/2013
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of revised upload: 22 December 2022
References
Campion, M. 1969 Skerries. Dublin Historical Record 23, 36-43.
Cahill, M. and Sikora, M. (eds) 2011 Breaking ground, finding graves - reports on the excavations of burials by the National Museum of Ireland, 1927-2006, 2 vols. Dublin. Wordwell Ltd. in association with the National Museum of Ireland.
Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.