Archaeology and monuments in County Dublin
The Discover Alone map has 2,888 archaeology and monuments in County Dublin, Ireland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Workhouse in Unknown TownlandWorkhouseWorkhouse in Unknown Townland is a workhouse in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps the workhouse in Unknown Townland is…
Windmill stumpWindmillKnockbrack and the reservoir still frame the ridge where the windmill stood. The stump appeared between Rocque’s map…
Windmill in Unknown TownlandWindmillWindmill in Unknown Townland is a windmill in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps its sails cut the Atlantic wind while…
Windmill in Unknown TownlandWindmillWest of Windmill Lane in County Dublin, a windmill stood until it vanished without a trace. Taylor mapped it as an old…
Windmill in Unknown TownlandWindmillWindmill in Unknown Townland is a windmill in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps the sails cut the Atlantic wind while…
Windmill in Unknown TownlandWindmillWindmill in Unknown Townland is a windmill in County Dublin, Ireland. Perhaps the sails cut through Atlantic rain while…
Windmill (in ruins)WindmillRuined sails shadowed Skerries when the mill cap still turned above the village. The tower stood tall enough for wind…
Windmill (in ruins)WindmillRogerstown estuary, County Dublin: a ruined stone tower mill, three storeys high, with slit windows and opposite…
Windmill (disused)WindmillThe Great Windmill rose fifteen metres above the Skerries coast, its five shuttered sails spanning twenty metres after…
Wind MillWindmillFeltrim Hill once hosted a Dutch-built windmill that ground wool, then corn, and later flashed semaphore signals toward…
William Smith O'Brien MonumentMonumentThe William Smith O'Brien Monument is a Portland limestone statue of the Young Irelander, designed by Thomas Farrell…
Wellington MonumentMonumentWellington Monument stands sixty-two metres tall in Phoenix Park, the largest obelisk in Europe, built from granite to…
Well ParkHoly wellSt Patrick's Well in Jamestown, County Dublin, is a small spring where people once tied rags and beads to white-thorn…
Well in StephenstownWellNamed on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as 'Mables Well'. Located on a NW facing slope above a stream under pasture. this was…Well in RathmichaelWellInside the grassy bawn of Puck's Castle, a partly circular stone-lined shape still suggests a well, waiting beneath the…
Well in Carrickmines GreatWellSeven granite faces and three steps descend into a dark pit at Carrickmines Castle, where straw, hazelnuts and animal…
Well in BullockWellThirty-seven metres from Bullock castle, a granite well descends two and a half metres into black organic silt holding…
Well in BarnaculliaWellO'Grady's Well in Barnacullia, County Dublin, is a stone covered well approached through a lintelled passage in the…
Wedge tomb in KillakeeWedge tombKillakee holds a wedge tomb where buried people still watch the glen between Cruagh and Mountpelier. Its chamber faces…
Wards WellHoly wellWards Well stands in Castlewarden, County Dublin, recorded on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map as a blessed station well.…
Urn burials (site of)Flat cemeteryUrn burials emerged in County Dublin when quarrymen cut through a sand and gravel ridge in 1892, exposing bowls and…
Urn burial in KilgobbinUrn burialKilgobbin Cottage stands at the foot of the Dublin mountains, where an urn surfaced in the lawn during the time of…
TurretTown defencesBullock Castle anchored the northern edge of a walled fishing town whose stone boundary still guarded the harbour when…
Tumulus (site of)Linkardstown burialGrass and footpaths hide a Bronze Age chamber where a hanging bowl still hangs in memory. People built sods, gravel and…
Tully Grave YardGraveyardTully Grave Yard holds a church inside concentric stone circles at the foot of the Dublin mountains, with the largest…
Trinity WellHoly wellTrinity Well is the only freshwater source on Lambay Island, making it a matter of life and death before it was a…
Town defences in Unknown TownlandTown defencesChapelizod wore a stone wall around its shoulders until the early 1600s, when its east gate still stood. A square…
Town defences in Unknown TownlandTown defencesDublin’s first defences appeared in the tenth century as an ovoid earth-and-timber enclosure on a ridge above the…
Town defences in Unknown TownlandTown defencesKing William's Rampart still stands in County Dublin, a long earthen bank with a hidden vaulted chamber at one end.…
Town defences in DalkeyTown defencesDalkey’s medieval defences still mark the town’s edge through a dense two-metre hedge and possible earth bank beside…
TowerBurialHalf a mile from Castleknock, a natural hill holds four buried bodies beside a standing tower. Men dug for a water tank…
Tooles MoatBurialTooles Moat is a tree-covered burial ridge in County Dublin where nineteenth-century quarrying exposed skeletons and…
TombTomb — effigialMnemo is a rare tumor in which a benign brain lesion becomes an endless inner voice. The woman in the account heard the…
TombTomb — effigialSlab A, C and D formed a 15th-century effigial tomb before becoming graveyard markers at Garristown church. The female…
TobertownWellAnnotated ‘Tobertown’ (Baile an Tobair) on the 1837 ed. OSi six-inch map where it is depicted standing on the E side of…
TobersoolHoly wellTobersool, the eye well of Balscaddan, still flows beneath a brutal concrete lid and corrugated iron, reduced to a…
TobermacluggHoly wellTobermaclugg, or Tobar na gClog, is a natural spring hidden in a hollow beside a tree in County Dublin, dedicated to…
TobermaclaneyHoly wellTobermaclaney was a holy well beside Carrick martello tower in County Dublin, mapping in 1837 and flowing into two…
TobercalleenHoly wellTobercalleen is a holy well in County Dublin where a small stream still flows onto the rocky strand. Local tradition…ToberbunnyHoly wellToberbunny, or Tobar Bainne, is a hidden milk well behind a Dublin golf course where a desperate widow once received…
ToberaghHoly wellToberagh, the Ear-Well of Crooksling, hid inside a living rock and gave water that eased headache and earache when…
The CourtArmorial plaqueThe Court lost its buildings but kept a limestone plaque bearing four coats of arms, now preserved in a Wyestown…
TelegraphSignal towerTelegraph stands on Dalkey Hill in County Dublin as an early nineteenth-century signal tower that watched the sea and…
Sunday WellHoly wellSunday Well in Laraghcon, County Dublin, lost its visible structure before memory faded, leaving only a gated avenue…
Structure in PortmarnockStructurePlot 2 in Portmarnock held a six-by-seven-metre building with wall stones and a packed floor, beside a yard and croft…
Structure in MiltonsfieldsStructureMiltonsfields holds a seven-by-six-metre metalled surface marked by three U-shaped channels, postholes and pits. Those…
Structure in Grange (balrothery East By., Holmpatrick Ed)StructureA sub-rectangular building (7.5m x 3m) was identified through test-excavation (Licence no. 06E0799). It is located at…
Structure in DrumanaghStructureGeophysical survey (Licence no. 12R127) undertaken by the Discovery Programme as part of the ‘Late Iron Age and “Roman”…
Structure in DonabateStructureDonabate is an L-shaped dry-stone chamber, five metres wide, buried at the base of a hill beside its church and tower…
Stone CrossCrossStone Cross stands beside the Malahide road, marking the entrance to St. Doolaghs church and graveyard. Its short arms…
Stone CircleCairn — unclassifiedStone Circle is an elongated grass-covered cairn on the NE side of Tallaght Hill in County Dublin, partially defined by…
Stone CirclePassage tombStone Circle is a broken passage tomb where four central stones still mark a buried chamber beneath Knockannavea hill.…
Star FortBastioned fortStar Fort was a real bastioned fort inside Phoenix Park, built in the early 1700s to watch the city gate. It stood…
Standing StoneArchaeological placeQueen Mab rises eighteen inches above ordinary sense on Barrack Road, her quartz body catching light like a forgotten…
St. Werburghs WellHoly wellSt. Werburghs Well is a holy spring in County Dublin dedicated to St Werburgh. Local tradition claims its water cures…
St. Sabhs WellHoly wellSt. Sabh's Well is a holy spring beneath a beehive-shaped stone chamber on a north-facing slope at St. Columba's…
St. Patricks WellHoly wellSt. Patrick's Well flowed inside the Provosts garden of Trinity College, marking the southern boundary of the old All…
St Patricks WellHoly wellSt Patricks Well in County Dublin is a natural spring where people still dip rags in cold water for sore eyes and…
St. Patricks WellHoly wellSt. Patrick's Well in Saggart defied draining because the water returned instantly after removal, sustaining life…
St. Patricks Church on site of ChurchGraveyardSt. Patricks Church and its walled graveyard occupy a raised square plot on high ground, holding 18th and 19th century…