Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newstone, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newstone
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.86346, -6.66880
- SMR number
- ME003-018----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the summit of a NW-SE ridge. It is not depicted on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is a D-shaped grass-covered area (dims 25m NE-SW; 21m NW-SE) defined y a scarp (H c. 0.5m), with a fosse (Wth of top 4.5m; int. D 1.2m; ext. D 0.8m) and an outer bank (L 7m; Wth of base 3.5m; ext. H 0.8m) on the straight side at NW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revision: 3 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.