Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Balally, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balally
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27021, -6.23270
- SMR number
- DU022-064----
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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
Now incorporated into a green area within Moreen Housing Estate. This feature extends roughly N-S direction and survives in two sections. It comprises a flat-topped bank with a fosse on either side (L 220m). The bank is better preserved in the S (Wth Top 3-4m, Wth Base 6m, H 1.2m). The fosses are mostly silted up (Wth 2m, D 0.3m). There are old whitethorn bushes along both faces of the bank and along the top a number of mature trees. This earthwork compares in appearance and size with sections of Pale Ditch in Dublin and Kildare. It is on a route of the Pale Ditch confirmed by Ball & Hamilton (1895) in their history of the Parish of Taney (Healy 1978). Investigative excavations in 1996 indicated the Pale Ditch continued northwards (L 63m) from the Kilcross estate through part of the Central Bank's grounds.
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.