Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Brownstown (balrothery West By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brownstown (balrothery West By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.50217, -6.23228
- SMR number
- DU007-076----
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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 within a large arable field known as the Stang, close to the townland boundary between Brownstown and Roscall with extensive views south to the Dublin/Wicklow mountains, cropmarks indicate the presence of subsurface remains of a trivallate enclosure. Aerial photographs supplied by Mrs Nessie Bergin show a circular middle enclosure (diam. c. 30m) with a distinct ditch (wth. c. 5m) with a possible entrance to the east. There is an outer enclosure (diam. c. 55m) defined by a ditch (wth. c. 2m) also with an entrance to the east. The circular inner enclosure is much less distinct. The wayleave of the Gas Pipeline appears to have partially truncated the north-west of the enclosure site. Other cropmarks to the east and west indicate a series of enclosures and possible field system.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 14/05/2020 and aerial photograph provided by Mrs Nessie Bergin
Compiled by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 8 November 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.