Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtowneyre, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtowneyre
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.23842, -8.27280
- SMR number
- GA099-156----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On a gentle rise in undulating grassland. Circular rath (diam. 31.4m), in fair condition, defined by a bank which is planted with trees from S through W to N. A gap (Wth 2m) at SE may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Windmillunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.