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Barrow - unclassified

Athgoe,Highdownhill, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Barrow - unclassified, Athgoe, Highdownhill, 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
Athgoe,Highdownhill
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28817, -6.51053
SMR number
DU020-006----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

Located on the N face of Athgoe Hill in an area indicated as a copse on the 1837 OS 6-inch map. A sub-circular area (diam. c. 46m) defined by a fosse (Wth 2.8m; D 0.9m) and an outer flat-topped bank in the NW and W (Wth 4m at base; 1.2m at top; H 0.6m) and by bushes in the E and SE. The interior of the site is planted with trees (Stout 1998, 151-2).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout

References

Stout, G. 1998 The archaeology of Ballymount Great, County Dublin. In C. Manning (ed.), Dublin and beyond the Pale, 145-54. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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