TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Ringfort - unclassified

Glebe (Rathdown By., Rathmichael ED), County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Glebe, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Glebe (Rathdown By., Rathmichael ED)
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.24227, -6.14903
SMR number
DU026-149----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Archaeological excavations were undertaken between 2000 and 2002 on a ringfort and field system identified during work on the South-Eastern Motorway (M50) (Seaver 2004, 160-16). The ringfort was located on a steep N-facing slope. The site comprises a circular enclosure (diam. c. 50m) defined by a single ditch (Wth 1.7m, D 0.9m) and earth and stone bank. The entrance is on the uphill side in the SE. The ditch produced considerable quantities of butchered bones of sheep, pig, horse, goat and dog. Artifacts included bone trial pieces, small quantities of slag, a stone pounder and part of a ring pin. There was evidence for a wooden revetment along the inside of the bank.

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.

Revised upload on: 26 May 2018.

References

Seaver, M. 2004 From mountain to sea: excavations at Laughanstown/Glebe. Archaeology Ireland 17, No. 4, 8-12.

Seaver, M. and Keeley, V. 2004 Laughanstown. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 172. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Ringfort - unclassified in Dublin All County Dublin records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map