Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Crooksling,slade, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crooksling,slade
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26641, -6.44042
- SMR number
- DU021-050----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Survives as a section of townland boundary between Slade and Crooksling. It runs along the crest of land that falls away to the NW, overlooking Saggart Village. Comprises a bank with contiguous internal and external fosse. The bank is flat-topped (H 1m-1.10m, Wth 5m). The internal fosse is largely silted up (Wth 1.50m, D 0.30m-0.40m) whereas the external fosse is overgrown (Wth 3m, D 0.50m). This feature has been interpreted as a medieval boundary to Saggart Commons (Ua Broin 1957, 39-41).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Ua Broin, L. 1957 The Mountain Commons of Saggart. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 39-52.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.