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Icehouse

Woodlands, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Icehouse, Woodlands, 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
Woodlands
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Ice House
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.37432, -6.42249
SMR number
DU017-120----

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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

Annotated ‘Ice House’ on the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map where it is depicted as a rectangular building with its long axis aligned north-south standing in woodland area on the demesne lands of Woodlands House (DU017-004----) standing 570m to the west. Building depicted standing in a woodland area close to a pathway on the 1863 edition of the Ordnance Survey 25-inch map with a watercourse 25m to the west and a spring well 20m to the north-east. Mature woodland visible in the area of the icehouse on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage. 

  

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

 

Date of Compilation: 26 November 2025

Nearby in the register

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

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