Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Balseskin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balseskin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.40933, -6.31029
- SMR number
- DU014-124----
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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 in large arable field close to the field’s N boundary, c. 148m NE of a large cropmark enclosure (DU014-102----), cropmarks indicate the presence of a subsurface ditch. The cropmarks are visible on Google Earth imagery on 24 June 2018 (viewed on 17 September 2020). The enclosure is subcircular in plan (diam. c. 32.3m N–S and c. 24.5m E–W). There is no evidence for an entrance gap through the ditch (Wth c. 2m). A linear cropmark, a subsurface ditch, can be seen adjoining the enclosure along its S perimeter.
Compiled by: Tom Condit
Uploaded on: 27 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Innunder 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.