Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - cashel
Newtown (beagh Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (beagh Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.06881, -8.84014
- SMR number
- GA122-117----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a SW-facing slope in pastureland. This poorly preserved subcircular cashel (c. 32.5m N-S) is defined by a collapsed and badly defaced drystone wall (Wth 2.75m in S sector; int. H 0.55m; ext. H 0.35m) all round. Inner and outer wall-facing was noted in the S sector. A field boundary clips the monument at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.