TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Enclosure

Thomondtown, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Thomondtown, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Thomondtown
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.50488, -6.21166
SMR number
DU008-116----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Located in a large arable field c. 813m SE of the complex of monuments at Gracedieu (DU007-015001- to DU007-015010-). An unnamed W-E running stream is located c. 159m to the S. The enclosure can be seen on Google Earth coverage (4 July 2008) where it is visible comprising negative cropmarks. The enclosure is circular in plan (ext. diam. c. 27m) defined by a low bank (Wth c. 2.5m). There is no clear evidence for an entrance gap through the bank.

Compiled by: Tom Condit

Uploaded on: 27 April 2021

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
See your own family's places on a living map