Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Kilgobbin, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilgobbin
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25830, -6.20659
- SMR number
- DU026-087----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Along the southern boundary of Greenfield House Goodbody (1993, 30) has identified a possible section of Pale Ditch. This runs on a roughly E-W axis along a NE facing slope that falls away to a river c. 8m below surrounding ground level. It comprises a roughly continuous linear bank of earth and stone (H 1m, Wth at top 0.9m, Wth at base 1.4m) with a ditch on the southern or upper slope side (Wth 1.8m). This ditch is more apparent at the western end of the earthwork. Heavy vegetation obstructs the present views.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 21 April 2018.
References
Goodbody, R. 1993 On the borders of the Pale. A history of Kilgobbin, stepaside and the Sandyford area. Bray. Pale Publishing.
Nearby in the register
- Urn burialunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
- Innunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.