Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Timber circle
Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newgrange
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68938, -6.47385
- SMR number
- ME019-078----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the outer edge of the lowest terrace overlooking the floodplain on the N bank of a W-E section of the River Boyne. An aerial photograph (GB89.L.13) shows an arc of an enclosure that is also visible on OSI images (1995). This has a diameter of c. 30m and is defined by a single fosse feature that might be composed of contiguous pits and is only visible E-S-W, as was reported by Conor Brady (pers. com.). It could be a timber circle.
Revised by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 08 October 2025
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.