Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Blackland, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blackland
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54461, -6.11310
- SMR number
- DU008-052----
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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 in a large open field of tillage. There are extensive views south to Howth Head. Ground ever so slightly undulating dropping down to south and east. Aerial photographs (FSI 423/2) shows cropmarks of a circular enclosure associated with a possible field system. Geophysical survey undertaken by the Discovery Programme LIARI Project in 2012 records the details of successive enclosures and field system (DU008-052003-). This enclosure (c.30m diam.) has all the appearance of a pre‐existing feature that has been incorporated into the field system, one of whose boundaries bisects it (Dowling 2013, 15).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 19 December 2014
References
Dowling, G. 2013, Geophysical Survey at Popeshall, Lane, Loughsinny and Blackland townlands, Co. Dublin. Licence 12R010. Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.