Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (kiltartan Ed),rinrush, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (kiltartan Ed),rinrush
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.10269, -8.79916
- SMR number
- GA123-079----
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 ridge in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (34.4m E-W; 31.5m N-S) defined by a bank. There is a wide gap (Wth 9m) at NNE. Another rath lies c. 75m to the NE and there is a children's burial ground (GA123-092----) c. 120m to the W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.