Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement cluster
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33897, -6.22197
- SMR number
- DU018-054----
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 LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
According to the Ancient Calendar of Records of Dublin in 1654 Cromwell issued a decreeordering all persons of Irish blood to move two miles outside the city limits. A community adjacent to Ringsend was set up which was to become known as (Flynn 1990, 49-50). Bernard De Gomme's map of The City and Suburbs of Dublin (1673) shows a large number of small dwellings here. No visible trace. The buildings in Irishtown today are largely artisan dwellings of 19th -20th century date. Listed in the Dublin City Development Plan 1991 as 'site of pre-1700 settlement' (Dublin Corporation 1992, No. 82).
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.