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Enclosure

Cappoge, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Enclosure, Cappoge, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cappoge
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.39694, -6.33458
SMR number
DU014-118----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Excavation (Licence no. 06E0288) was undertaken at the site in advance of the Premier Business Park development. A large L-shaped ditch (3.9m w. x 1.74m max. depth) extended N – S for 53.4m and the E return extended for c. 20m. The size of this ditch and its organic waterlogged fill indicates that it could represent the remains of a moat that may have delimited the earlier settlement on this site, prior to the construction of the recorded Cappogue Castle (DU014-027----). Pottery recovered from the moat indicates occupation during the 12th – 14th centuries (McQuade 2009).

Compiled by: Christine Baker

Date of upload: 6 February 2015

References

McQuade 2009 Archaeological excavations on the site of Meakstown Castle, Fingal. Co. Dublin. In Duffy, S. (ed.) Medieval Dublin IX . Dublin 91-130

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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