Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (Kiltartan ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Kiltartan ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10830, -8.79199
- SMR number
- GA123-075----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the NE-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (40.8m E-W;
34.5m N-S) defined by a bank and fosse . The bank is visible from W through N to E; elsewhere a slight scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse is evident except at S and is filled with field-clearance rubble and trees at N. A field wall cuts through the monument from SSW to E. A souterrain (GA123-075001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.