Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Barrow - ring-barrow
Newtown Lower, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Lower
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26607, -6.50404
- SMR number
- DU021-039----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in a low-lying field of pasture at the bottom of Saggart Hill. The site comprises a double-banked barrow (ext. diam.79m). A slightly sunken roughly circular area (diam.27m) is enclosed by a wide flat bottomed fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.55m) an external earthen bank (Wth 10m; H 0.8m) with external shallow fosse (Wth 6m; D 0.45m) and external earthen bank (Wth 8.8m; H 0.6m). The external bank is partially levelled along the N side. A field boundary cuts across the west section of the external bank (Stout 1998, 150, 152). The form of this site is similar to that described in the OS Letters as the 'Rath of Cumhal' (Herity 2001, 42)).
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Meath. Dublin. Four Masters Press
Stout, G. 1998 The archaeology of Ballymount Great, County Dublin. In C. Manning (ed.), Dublin and beyond the Pale, 145-54. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Hillfortunder 1 mi
- Ceremonial enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Windmillunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.