Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (tirawley By.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (tirawley By.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.06748, -9.21209
- SMR number
- MA039-065----
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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
In pasture, with gently rising ground to E and SE. This enclosure is shown as a circular embanked enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on the 1838 and 1930 OS 6-inch maps; it is located on the S boundary of the townland, which is shown looping around the S edge of the enclosure. It has been levelled; there is no visible trace at ground level, bar a slight ill-defined rise or undulation. There is a rath (MA039-063) c. 300m to W and a church (MA039-064001) 275m to SW.
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 25 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.