Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Linear earthwork
Carrickmines Great, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrickmines Great
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24667, -6.17211
- SMR number
- DU026-122----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Goodbody (1993, 30) has identified a linear section of bank in a golf Course at Carrickmines, which he suggests, could be part of the Pale Ditch. This runs in a NNW-ESE direction on a plateau in a N facing mountain slope. It has extensive views of the Killiney coast in the E and Dublin Mountains in the S; views are restricted in the W and N. It comprises a flat-topped bank (L 106m, max. Wth 4m, H 0.70m). This is planted along its length with evergreen trees. There is a modern break in the S end of the earthwork. There is a ditch along the W side (Wth 3m, D 0.52m) and traces of a silted up ditch along the E side of the earthwork, near where it terminates in the S.
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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.