Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Coolmine (castleknock By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolmine (castleknock By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40096, -6.39944
- SMR number
- DU013-011----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This site is marked as a tree-covered mound in the 1837 OS 6 inch map, one of a line of such mounds which bordered the northern end of Coolmine estate. It was removed during land reclamation in the late 1950s and appears as a continuous circular cropmark on Cambridge photography (CUCAP AP1 27). Excavations in advance of the Navan Road Improvement Scheme in 1989 identified an enclosure (26m diam.). It consisted of a ditch (3m w. x 1m d.) that contained post medieval delft and clay pipe and was interpreted as a tree ring.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 19 January 2015
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.