Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newcastle (fore By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (fore By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.77857, -7.11984
- SMR number
- ME009-017----
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 in a fairly low-lying landscape. This is a raised, circular and grass-covered area (diam. c. 22m N-S; c. 21m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (at S: Wth c. 3m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 1.2m) with some bushes separated by a fosse (at S: Wth of top 5m; ext. D 0.8m) from an outer bank (Wth c. 3m; ext. H 1m). The original entrance is not identified. The outer bank is truncated by a NW-SE field bank SSW-W.
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: 31 October 2018
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.