Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Promontory fort - coastal
Dunleary, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunleary
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29636, -6.14130
- SMR number
- DU023-052001-
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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 N of Crofton Road and York Road on the coast. A promontory fort noted by Reverend Stokes (1893, 347) as 'Dun of Dunleary' and located left of the old pier at Dunlaoghaire. A martello tower (DU023-052003-) was built in the middle of the fort. Its position is marked on Rocque's map of County Dublin (1765) as a circular mound by the harbour. The area was levelled to make way for the railway in 1834. The material from the dismantled earthwork was used to level the ground and form a foundation for the road (Casey 2001).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018
References
Stokes, M. 1893 St. Beoc of Wexford, and Lan Veoc in Brittany. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 23, 380-5.
Casey, M. 2001 The coastal promontory forts of Ireland: interim report for the Heritage Council. Unpublished specialist report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Nearby in the register
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.