Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Portraine Demesne, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portraine Demesne
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Chapel (site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.48385, -6.10776
- SMR number
- DU012-009001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
This 'chapel site' is located in a field of pasture above the cliff edge at Portraine (Healy 1975, 25). When ploughed large stones visible. Geophysical survey (Licence no. 08R0029) undertaken ahead of the Donabate-Rogerstown Waste Water Treatment Scheme identified a possible platform c70m north of present site identified as possible site of chapel.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 16 January 2015
References
Healy, P. 1975b Third report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Caveunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.