Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Settlement deserted - medieval
Ardoyne, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardoyne
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins), Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.77947, -6.68946
- SMR number
- WI042-003----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
Cropmark of rectilinear-shaped enclosures visible on Google earth aerial imagery, could be the remains of deserted medieval settlement associated with Ardoyne church (WI042-003001-) and motte and bailey castle (WI042-002----). Alternatively the cropmarks could be the remains of post-1700 drainage channels.
See attached image of Google Earth photograph taken 14/07/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Simon Dowling
Date of upload: 26 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.