Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Whitestown (uppercross By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitestown (uppercross By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27584, -6.38924
- SMR number
- DU021-056----
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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
Situated on the W bank of a stream on a gentle NE facing slope. . An aerial photograph taken in 1971 (FSI 2 339/8) shows remains of a roughly circular enclosure defined by a low earthwork (ext. diam. c. 40m). There is a housing estate on the site. Not visible at ground level.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.