Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Newbarn, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newbarn
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Moat
- Coordinates
- 53.49011, -6.32585
- SMR number
- DU011-001----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a field of rich pastureland on ground falling south to road and the Broadmeadow river. Comprises a roughly circular earthen platform (diam c. 70m, H 1.5m) with an outer earthen bank (Wth 3m, H1.2m). It is splayed on the downslope side and disturbed in the N. Trees hadbeen planted around the perimeter but several had been removed leaving large holes and rotten stumps. Ditch evident around base except to the south. Immediate area to the SE has been extensively quarried.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 02 January 2015
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.