Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Beaverstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Beaverstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.48615, -6.15267
- SMR number
- DU012-066----
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
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
An archaeological assessment in 2002 revealed prehistoric features. They comprised two distinct clusters of seventeen pits and post-holes forming a semi-circular arrangement spread over an area 8m N-S by 5m. Finds include sherds of early Neolithic pottery and some flint (Hagen, I, 2006, 117).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Hagen, I. 2002, Final Report, Archaeological assessment, Portraine Graveyard. Licence 02E1451. Unpublished report submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.