Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Bawn
Newcastle (Moyfenrath Lower By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (Moyfenrath Lower By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41952, -6.86255
- SMR number
- ME048-018001-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a broad hill. The tower house (ME048-018----) is at the NW angle of a bawn of unknown dimensions, evidenced by fragments of the bawn wall bonded to the stairs tower at the centre of the E wall of the tower house and a fragment bonded to the SE angle of the tower house and extending S.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 July, 2016
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.