Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Ballinascorney Upper, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinascorney Upper
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24348, -6.39822
- SMR number
- DU024-041----
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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
Situated on a SE-facing slope in upland pasture, with a stream to the S. An enclosure, sub-circular in plan (ext. diam.25.5m), truncated by a field boundary in the E. It has a raised interior, within which is a rectangular feature (L 8.6m; Wth 5.6m ) defined by a stone-built bank; bank (Wth 0.9m; H 0.4m). This is probably a house-site (Healy 1975, 1-19). The raised interior is defined by an inner flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.3m) and an uninterrupted external bank. (3.8m; H 0.4-0.5m). Identified on an aerial photography (pers comm Leo Swan).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 7 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.