Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Newtown (coolock By., Finglas Ed), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (coolock By., Finglas Ed)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.42027, -6.31760
- SMR number
- DU014-006002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on wasteland within the Dublin Airport Logistics Park. Previously a golf course. A series of aerial photographs taken after site destruction (BDR 27, BDQ 65, BGM, 70, AVS 38, 37) shows detailed cropmark evidence for two distinct building phases on the site. A roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) with field system attached to the west appears to pre-date the ringfort (DU014-006001-) levelled in 1953 (Stout and Stout 1992, 5-14).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 22 January 2015
References
Stout, G. and Stout, M. 1992 Patterns in the past: county Dublin, 5000 BC-1000 AD. in F.H.A. Aalen and K. Whelan (eds), Dublin city and county: from prehistory to Present, 5-14. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.