Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Quarry
Palmerston Lower, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Palmerston Lower
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Quarry
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.35879, -6.36362
- SMR number
- DU017-123----
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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
Annotated ‘Quarry’ on the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map where it is depicted as a semi-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 40m) 60m to the north of Palmerston church (DU017-026001-) and graveyard (DU017-026002-) and 100m to the west of a lead and copper mill standing on the western bank of the River Liffey. Area of filled in disused quarry visible as scrubland area on the 2013-18 MapGenie orthoimage.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of Compilation: 26 November 2025
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Icehouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.