Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Monknewtown, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monknewtown
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71470, -6.47554
- SMR number
- ME019-143----
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape, with a small canalised W-E stream c. 100m to the N. The cropmark of a circular area (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single fosse is visible only on Google Earth (21/07/2021). It is slightly truncated by an E-W road bank at S, and it was first reported by Anthony Murphy.
See the attached enhanced view from Google Earth (21/07/2021)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 September 2021
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.