Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Skidoo, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Skidoo
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48996, -6.26725
- SMR number
- DU011-105----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This enclosure is located at the northern edge of a large field, bisected by a field boundary on ground sloping down towards the E and S to the Broadmeadow river below. The surrounding landscape is gently rolling terrain. Views are restricted to N and W by adjacent hedgerows but are extensive to the W and S. It is one of three cropmarks identified within this field (DU011-160---- and Du011-161----). First recorded as a positive cropmark in May 1991. Aerial photograph (GB91. DB. 02) shows cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by two concentric fosses. A more recent view of the monument from (Google Earth image 12 July 2013) shows only the S expression of the cropmark (O' Connell 2014).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker and Margaret Keane
Date of upload: 09 January 2015
References
O'Connell, A. 2014 Balheary Avenue, Swords, County Dublin Archaeological Testing Licence No. 14E0142, Unpublished report, Archer Heritage Planning. National Monuments Section, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.