Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape feature
Blessington Demesne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blessington Demesne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.17454, -6.53245
- SMR number
- WI005-020----
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
On level to gently sloping ground at the E foot of a small steep rise. A roughly rectangular area ( c. 60m x 12m) defined by a low bank (H 0.3m) with an external ditch. The SE end of the feature is unenclosed and abutts onto a small circular pond (diam. c. 12m).
In 2002 five trenches were excavated 'in the constraint area' of this monument but nothing of archaeological significance was noted (Molloy 2004, 532)
Compiled by: Matt Kelleher and Claire Breen
Date of revision: 18 January 2013
References
Molloy, B. 2004 Blessington Demesne. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2002: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 532 (No. 1958). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Barrow - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Habitation siteunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.