Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunbrin Lower, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbrin Lower
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97092, -6.97475
- SMR number
- LA020-019----
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Aerial photograph (GB90.AU.22) shows cropmark of a large irregular curvilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; a small circular cropmark within the interior may indicate a pit. First recorded as a positive cropmark in May 1990. This enclosure and the possible pit are faintly visible on the OSI website, 1995 orthophotos. The 'pit' is marked on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map, but no indication of function. Part of an extensive, complex and probably multi-period cropmark landscape (LA020-016/017/018/020/021/022/023/024) in the fields south-east of the motte (LA020-002-).
The above report has been compiled by Dr. G.F. Barrett and supplied to the Archaeological Survey of Ireland.
Date of this report: 20/11/09
Compiled by Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload / revision : 15 August 2010
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.