Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Colmanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Colmanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27710, -6.50949
- SMR number
- DU020-009004-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This walled-in graveyard (DU020-009002-) is sub-circular in plan suggesting the former existence of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. Inside the graveyard wall along the E/NE quadrant there are traces of a bivallate enclosure (dims. ext. fosse Wth 2.75m; D 1.15m; int. bank Wth 1.25m, H 0.8m; int. fosse Wth 4m, D 1.1m).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.