Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Butterfield, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Butterfield
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29430, -6.30001
- SMR number
- DU022-038002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The first edition OS 6-inch sheet shows a curvilinear area formed by a bend in the old road, Butterfield Avenue, and the surrounding field boundaries which probably indicates the former presence of an ecclesiastical enclosure. Archaeological excavations in 1997 identified evidence for burial (DU022-038001-).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 26th April 2012
References
Carroll, J. 1998b Vicar Street/58-9 Thomas Street, Dublin. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 55. Bray. Wordwell.
Carroll, J. 1998a The Old Orchard Inn, Butterfield Avenue, Rathfarnham. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1997: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 59-60. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Mass-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.