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Enclosure

Fosterstown South, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Fosterstown South, 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
Fosterstown South
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.44187, -6.23013
SMR number
DU011-116----

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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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A circular enclosure visible as a crop mark on an aerial photograph together with other features that suggest an associated field system (DU011-117----) (SMR file; pers. comm. T. Condit). A further enclosure can be seen to the south (DU011-118----).
This site was subject to geophysical survey (08R117) and test excavation (09E 0466) as part of the proposed Metro North development. A double ditched or bivallate enclosure with an associated field system situated to the south was identified. The bivallate enclosure consists of an inner enclosure (30m diam.) which is partially
encompassed on the eastern, northeastern and northern sides by a second elliptical enclosing ditch (50m diam.). While no diagnostic material was recovered the morphology suggests a bivallate ringfort (Hession 2009, 23).

Compiled by: David O’Connor

Updated by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 09 January 2015

References

Hession, J. 2009 Assessment Report on the results of Metro North Advance Archaeological Test Trenching, Testing Area 8, Fosterstown South townland, Co. Dublin (Licence no. 09E466). Unpublished report. National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Nearby in the register

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

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