Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
House - Viking/Hiberno-Norse
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.34324, -6.26850
- SMR number
- DU018-020934-
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
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Excavations in 1985concentrated in the area outside the NW corner tower of the castle and outside the edge of the moat producedevidence of pre-Norman occupation, e. g. wattle structures and a decorated bone comb with Runic inscription (possibly 10th - century (Lynch 1986, 22)
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.