Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Thorntown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Thorntown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47707, -6.32833
- SMR number
- DU011-094003-
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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
In 2005 geophysical survey (Licence no. 05R023) on the crest of an elongated ridge revealed an enclosure complex. In the west of the site is a subrectangular enclosure with the longer axis running E-W. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 09 January 2015
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.