Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Earthwork
Backstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Backstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34619, -6.48884
- SMR number
- DU017-100----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In grassland immediately E of a watercourse running from S to N. Ecclesiastical site (DU017-028001-) 470m to S. Cropmark of a circular shaped area (diam. c. 35m) defined by a wide ditch with cropmark of semi-circular-shaped annexe (diam. c. 23m) defined by a faint narrow cropmark to E visible on OSi Bluesky orthoimages taken 2018 (https://sdublincoco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=e0c5595b033341dea7661e248d2e9ee9). Faint traces of cropmark visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken between 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages taken 12/07/2013 and 27/06/2019.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages and Apple Maps Orthoimage provided by Jean-Charles Caillere
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Donal Lucey and Jean-Charles Caillere
Date of upload: 30 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.