Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newgrange
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69793, -6.47765
- SMR number
- ME019-039----
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Circular area defined by scarp (diam. 53m) with outer fosse. Entrance may be at E. Monument visible as a circular cropmark on aerial photograph (AHJ 65; SMR File). Cropmark of ringfort is also visible on Google Eart aerial photograph taken 12 November 2005.
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.
Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007
See attached image showing cropmark of ringfort, taken from Google Earth, image captured 12 November 2005.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Timber circleunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - passage tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.