Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (regun), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (regun)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.05506, -8.86611
- SMR number
- GA122-122----
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (35m N-S; 28.3m E-W) is defined by a bank that is overgrown with trees and bushes for most of its circumference. The banks is also obscured by field-clearance rubble which has been dumped on and against it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.