Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - unclassified
Newtown (rathdown By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (rathdown By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22818, -6.21452
- SMR number
- DU025-047001-
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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 on the upper crest of a hill above the old chapel in Glencullen village. A barrow comprising of a circular round-topped mound (diam.25m; H 3.2m) defined by an inner fosse (Wth 5m; H 0.5m) and external bank (Wth 2.5m; H 0.5m). The site is damaged in the S where its bank has been truncated by a field boundary extending E-W. There is a single standing stone (DU025-047002-) to the NE of the bowl-barrow (Healy 1975, 1-19; Turner 1983, 14).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
- Cultivation ridgesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.