Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Dunbrin Lower, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbrin Lower
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97206, -6.97593
- SMR number
- LA020-021----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 an incomplete rectilinear enclosure defined by a fosse; one of two overlapping rectilinear enclosures (LA020-020). First recorded as a positive cropmark in May 1990. Not clear which enclosure is the earliest. Part of an extensive, complex and probably multi-period cropmark landscape (LA020-016/017/018/019/020/022/023/024) 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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.