Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ring-ditch
Magillstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magillstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49221, -6.22660
- SMR number
- DU011-164----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located in flat terrain within a ploughed landscape, N of a cluster of farm buildings and houses and just W of a farm trackway. The cropmark of a sub-rectangular ring-ditch (ext. diam. c. 40m ) with a broad ditch at the SE side, narrowing in width as it progresses to the NW side. The ring-ditch appears to overlie a smaller circular ring-ditch (int. diam. c. 12m) which it cuts along its NW edge. Within the larger enclosure are a number of circular anomalies, one at the centre, another in the NE quadrant. The monument is only visible on the 1995 OSi black and white aerial photographs.
Compiled by Margaret Keane
Updated 20 July 2017
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.