Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Booterstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Booterstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30137, -6.20307
- SMR number
- DU023-003----
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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
Situated in a green space within a housing development. Prior to excavation was noted as open pasture within the old St Helen's estate. The pasture sloped gently from S to N towards the sea, some 1100m to the N; the site itself is located between the 34m and 35.5m contours. A circular feature identified in a CUCAP (AVS 261) image. Testing in 1990 showed the feature be a tree-ring. The ditch measured approximately 51.5m in overall (external) diameter, 2.2m in width and 1.7m in depth and varying between U-shaped and truncated V-shaped in section (Halpin, A.1991, 24).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
References
Halpin, E. 1992 Seatown, Dundalk. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1991: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 33-4, no. 96. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.