Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Irishtown (castleknock By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Irishtown (castleknock By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44399, -6.36107
- SMR number
- DU010-001----
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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
Located in a large arable field, on an alluvial terrace, c. 190m S of the W-E running Ward River. This field is on lands formerly associated with Irishtown House (demolished), which lay c. 440m to the SW. Now within open field W of M2. Another ring-ditch (DU010-004----) is located c. 267m to the WSW. There has been widespread levelling of field boundaries as shown on the Ordnance Survey maps. An aerial photograph taken in the early 1990s (Dr. Gillian Barret AP 17) shows a circular cropmark (ext. diam. c. 18m). Not visible at ground level. The site appears clearly on Google Earth Coverage of 24 June 2018. The ring-ditch appears as a circular feature evidenced by a positive cropmark (ext. diam. c. 12.6m) defined by a ditch (Wth c. 2m). There is no evidence for an entrance gap through the ditch. Fragments of linear features are visible in general vicinity.
Updated by: Tom Condit
Date of upload: 22 April 2021
References
Barrett, G. 2002 Flights of archaeological air survey in Ireland 1989-2000. Journal of Irish Archaeology 11, 1-30.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.