Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Piercetown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Piercetown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55761, -6.10377
- SMR number
- DU005-190----
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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
Located close to the southern boundary of a large arable field, c. 310m NNW of an enclosure (DU005-069----) and c. 1.05 km SW of the Irish Sea coastline at Holmpatrick, cropmarks indicate the presence of the subsurface remains of a ring-ditch, one of two ring-ditches in the same field. The other ring-ditch (DU005-191----) is located c. 140m to the WSW. The ring-ditch, visible on Apple Maps imagery (June 2018), comprises a circular feature (ext. diam. c. 12m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 1m). There is no evidence for an entrance through the ditch.
Compiled by: Tom Condit
Uploaded on: 23 April 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.