What is recorded here
A substantial double ditched enclosure was identified in the course of the Fingal community geophysical survey project What Lies Beneath (Gimson & Garner 2018). A circular enclosure (diam. c.50m) associated areas of burning, ditches and numerous pits was identified. This area was associated with the sixth century St Colman. In the 1830s John O’Donovan of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, recorded that the ruins of St Colman’s church were to the north-west of Lanistown Castle (DU012-004---). The enclosure is traversed by a later linear landscape feature defined by two parallel bank and ditches.
A substantial double ditched enclosure was identified in the course of the Fingal community geophysical survey project What Lies Beneath (Gimson & Garner 2018). A circular enclosure (diam. c.50m) associated areas of burning, ditches and numerous pits was identified. This area was associated with the sixth century St Colman. In the 1830s John O’Donovan of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, recorded that the ruins of…
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DU012-101
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- Denis Moynihan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Adc88 at en.wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · CC0
- William Murphy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- William Murphy from Dublin, Ireland, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Tony in dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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