Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Mountpelier, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mountpelier
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24607, -6.32725
- SMR number
- DU025-020002-
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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 Mountpelier. Named 'fort' on the 1843 OS 6-inch map and shown on the 1937 ed. as a subcircular enclosure (est. diam. c. 26m). The site has been planted with trees and incorporated into Killakee Woods (Healy 1961, 124).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018
References
Healy, P. 1961 The Valley of Glenasmole. Dublin Historical Record 16, 109-30.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.