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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, November 25, 2024

MOTION NO. 13

MOTION: Councillor N. Whelan

"This area committee calls on the council to address the state our National Monument "The Fosse" has been allowed fall into and requests it be brought back to a respectable condition?"

REPORT:

The feature locally referred to as ‘the Fosse’ is believed to represent a boundary embankment that marks the probably position of the ecclesiastical enclosure which once surrounded the lands of the historic St. Maelruan’s monastery.  It is listed by the National Monuments Service as the Recorded Monument: DU021-037002- : Ecclesiastical enclosure : TALLAGHT (see NMS records at Historic Environment Viewer) 

The official description of the Recorded Monument highlights the curvature of the present graveyard boundary on the SW side of the medieval parish church.  This curved feature is the element of the site that is most visible in the car park to the rear of commercial buildings east of Abberley Square, off High Street, Tallaght.

The mounded embankment is not in the ownership of South Dublin County Council, and the Council therefore has no authority to address maintenance issues on the site.  Concerns regarding recorded monuments or features of archaeological interest can be made to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments Service ) at:

National Monuments Service,
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Custom House

Dublin 1

Tel:         085 8049231

Email:  nationalmonuments@housing.gov.ie