Earthwork in Rathbeal, County Dublin

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What is recorded here

Located immediately E of what was the Dublin-Knocksedan-Grace Dieu Coach Road, now New Dairy Lane. There are a series of gullies (max. Wth 8m, D 0.8m) running NE-SW across a field under tillage and pasture SE of Rathbeale Hall. The landowner has identified considerable quantities of cut stone exposed during ploughing. There is a local tradition that James II was brought here on his way to the Battle of the Boyne.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU011-016

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