Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballynakelly, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynakelly
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29297, -6.49240
- SMR number
- DU021-105----
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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
This d-shaped enclosure (Wth 52m E-W, 49m N-S) is evident as a cropmark on aerial photographs taken in 2005 SE of Newcastle village. There is evidence for a double ditch along the NW and an entrance causeway in the NNW (pers. comm. Siobhain Mc Dermott).
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.