Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (kenry By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (kenry By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.63285, -8.90499
- SMR number
- LI011-017----
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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
In pasture, on gentle S-facing slope. Circular area (diam. 29.8m) enclosed by earthen bank with external fosse (D 0.95m; Wth 1.3m). Bank (int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1m), covered by hawthorn bushes, is best preserved E->NW. Causeway entrance at N (Wth 4m). Fosse is truncated by field boundary NE->E. Low earth-and-stone counterscarp bank (H 0.3m; Wth 4m) E->NW. Level interior under pasture.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
See attached ASI aerial photographs ASIAP – taken on 04/03/2006.
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
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