Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Knockmitten, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockmitten
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32258, -6.37932
- SMR number
- DU017-043----
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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
Situated on a NE facing slope close to the Camock River. An aerial photograph taken in 1971 (FSI 227/8) shows cropmark evidence for a subcircular enclosure (diam. c. 38m). Possibly a levelled ringfort. There is a housing estate on the site. Not visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.