Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Newtown (rathdown By.), County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (rathdown By.)
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22573, -6.21319
- SMR number
- DU025-047004-
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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
Situated on a S-facing, furze-covered slope above Glencullen village. A ringfort comprising of a circular sunken area (int. diam.23m) enclosed by a drystone wall (Wth 1.5m; H 0.6m) which rises to three courses and an external fosse (Wth 2m; D 0.5m). The interior is divided into two compartments by a curving wall. There are furze-covered hut sites in the N half. The entrance (Wth 5m) is in the SE. A series of curving field walls radiate from the W and SE of site (Herity 2001, 22-4). Recent aerial coverage of the area (OS 10:4735) shows a system of irregular fields extending into both the remaining unimproved pasture onthe hill and the improved pasture N of the cashel.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Herity, M. (ed.) 2001 Ordnance Survey Letters: Dublin. Dublin. Four Masters Press.
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.