Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newrath Big (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newrath Big (kells Upper By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72546, -6.90512
- SMR number
- ME016-023001-
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
Located on a fairly low N-S spur at the S base of the Hill of Lloyd. The entrance to the complex souterrain (ME016-023002-) is at the NW edge of a rath (int. diam. c. 36m N-S; c. 36m E-W) that is visible as the cropmark of a continuous fosse (Wth c. 1-3m) only on Apple Maps, which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. The rath (ME016-055001-) and souterrain (ME016-055----) are c. 170m to the ESE. (Sweetman 1975)
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: 26 February 2019
Amended: 27 November 2019
References
Sweetman, P.D. 1975 Souterrain in the townland of Newrath Big, Co. Meath. Ríocht na Mídhe 6, no. 1, 54.
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.