
What is recorded here
That is the largest chamber known, a round room thirty-seven metres across where the building still stands. The local church and a holy well sit nearby, suggesting the area supported worship and daily life before the current town appeared. The chamber may have formed during the medieval period when Brownstown was active, though no written account has survived to confirm the exact date.
In grassland, 370m NE of ecclesiastical enclosure (DU021-001001-) and holy well (DU021-001002-). Cropmark of roughly circular shaped area (diam. c. 40m) defined by two ditches with possible field system attached to N and W side of earthwork visible on OSi Bluesky orthoimage taken 2018 (https://sdublincoco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/). Faint outline visible on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13. Cropmark visible on Google Earth orthoimages taken 29/03/2022 and 07/05/2017.
See attached Google Earth orthoimages
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Stephen Callaghan
Date of upload: 5 December 2022
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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