Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Fosterstown South, County Dublin, Ireland
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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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
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 Unpublished report.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
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.