Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - unclassified
Newtown (geashill By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (geashill By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Castle in ruins
- Latest-edition OS map
- Castle (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.23663, -7.40390
- SMR number
- OF025-005----
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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
All that remains of this site is a raised square shaped platform (Dims. 9m E-W by 10m N-S). A curious ridge runs off the Eastern side of the platform, this ridge measures 2.5m wide and may have been the original roadway to the castle. There is no evidence of cut or decorated stone and no evidence of a bawn wall although this may have been located to the east of the castle where the modern orchard is located. The outhouses to the east of the castle displayed no evidence of worked stone from the castle in their walls (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 74-5).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the King's County collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.