Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Wyestown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Wyestown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53266, -6.36210
- SMR number
- DU006-004----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a S-facing slope under tillage. An aerial photograph taken in 1972 (FSI 4.595/4) shows a cropmark of a double-ditched enclosure (ext. diam. c. 60m). This is probably a levelled ringfort. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 28 November 2014
Nearby in the register
- Armorial plaque (present location)under 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.