Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Shenick'S Island, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shenick'S Island
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.57334, -6.08573
- SMR number
- DU005-116----
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
Possible promontory fort described by Casey (2003, 18) as follows; ‘A 2m wide straight fosse flanked by a low earthen bank crosses the island near the narrowest point, cutting of the northwestern third from the remainder. A martello tower [NIAH: 11311040] and several possible levelled field boundaries are the only features visible within. Not clearly a defended promontory but the site has not yet been examined on the ground.’
References
Casey, M. 2003 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.