Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Habitation site
Farrankelly, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Farrankelly
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12279, -6.07379
- SMR number
- WI013-073----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
A curving arc of ditch (L 68m SE-NE), two slot-trenches and a number of pits and postholes were excavated here in 2003, prior to the construction of the dual carriageway from the R671 to Greystones (Excavation Licence 03E1550 (Site J)). One of the slot-trenches contained a barbed and tanged arrow head and prehistoric pottery, one of the pits contained a fragment of prehistoric pottery. (Molloy 2006, 547)
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 17 January 2013
References
Molloy, B. 2006 Site J, Charlesland. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 547 (No. 2082). Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Cremation pitunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.