Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Riverine revetment
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34395, -6.27026
- SMR number
- DU018-020579-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1836 · Dublin (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Large scale plan of Dublin. (Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library)
- 1908 · Dublin, Ireland 1908 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavations carried out in 1975-76 revealed two earthen banks with palisades of post and wattle work probably constructed to act as flood barriers prior to the construction of the town wall. Finds included textiles and leatherwork, personal ornaments and an Anglo-Saxon coins of 10th-century date (Wallace 1975-76, 30).
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical residenceunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.