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Habitation site

Piperstown, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Habitation site, Piperstown, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Piperstown
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.23710, -6.33960
SMR number
DU025-019012-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on the S slopes of Piperstown Hill. A habitation site known as Site P. ‘Site P: A roughly circular ring of small stones which seldom rise above the present ground surface; some of the stones . . . are buried so deeply in the ground that they may be there naturally. It averages about 4-50 m. in internal diameter. The entrance appears to be in the S-E. Slightly off-centre is a rectangular hearth-site constructed of slabs of mica-schist, with its long axis orientated E-W. This is not, apparently, closed at its western end’ (Rynne and Ó hEailidhe 1965, 75) This is part of an extensive settlement and cemetery of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age date.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018

References

Rynne, E. and Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1965 A group of prehistoric sites at Piperstown, County Dublin. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 64C, 3-84.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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