Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
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
- 53.68830, -6.47768
- SMR number
- ME026-034----
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
Located on the floodplain on the N bank of a W-E section of the River Boyne, c. 100m from the river in Brú na Bóinne. Exceptionally dry weather conditions during June / July 2018 brought out the cropmark of a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) defined by a single narrow fosse feature, which is visible SW-NW-NE and was first photographed by Anthony Murphy using a drone-mounted camera. It is located between the embanked enclosure (ME026-006----) c. 30m to the ESE and the ceremonial enclosure (ME026-033----), which is c. 20m to the WNW, and it appears to overlie the arc of the detached fosse associated with (ME026-033----).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 July, 2018
Nearby in the register
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Hengeunder 1 mi
- Embanked enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - pondunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.