Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Fortification
Shankill, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Shankill
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU026-052004-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The Calendar of Archbishop Alen's Register records that between 1257 and 1263 a murder was committed in the gate of Shankill (McNeill 1950, 112). This would suggest that the settlement was enclosed but no trace of the course of the defences survives. The fortification has not been precisely located.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 19 April 2018.
References
McNeill, C. (ed.) 1950 Calendar of Archbishop Alen's Register c. 1172-1534. Dublin. Royal Society of Antiquaries.
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