Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - ornamental lake
Blessington Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blessington Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17423, -6.54145
- SMR number
- WI005-016----
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
Listed as an 'enclosure' in the SMR (1986) and a 'landscape feature' in the RMP (1995). On level terrain on the grounds of Blessington Demesne. A circular pond (diam. c. 40m; D 3.5m) with a walk-way (Wth 3m) around the lip.
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher
Date of upload: 04 December 2012
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.