Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Newtown (geashill By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (geashill By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.23034, -7.39761
- SMR number
- OF025-034----
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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 atop low rise of ground with good views in all directions. Circular area (diam. c. 42m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved tree-lined earthen bank (Wth. 2m; int. H. 0.5m; ext. H 0.7m) and external fosse (Wth 3m; ext. D. 0.4m). No clear entrance feature visible. Monument is depicted as a tree-ring and not as an antiquity on the current ed. OS 6-inch map. However on the 1838 ed. OS 6-inch map this enclosure is shown standing in the S quadrant of a field annotated on the map as 'Burial Field'. It is possible that this enclosure served as a burial ground which then lent its name to the field in which the monument is standing. The enclosure may have been a ringfort that was later used as a burial ground and subsquently converted into a tree-ring.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 December 2013
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.