Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Cappoge, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cappoge
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.39694, -6.33458
- SMR number
- DU014-118----
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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
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
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