Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Newtown (geashill By.), County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (geashill By.)
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23506, -7.39926
- SMR number
- OF025-036----
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
In pasture atop low gravel ridge, with Newtown Castle (OF025-005----) 300m to WNW. Cropmark of circular shaped area (approx. diam. 15m) defined by a fosse visible on Google Earth orthoimage and on Digital Globe orthophoto taken 2011-13. Depicted as an area of woodland standing in centre of field annotated 'Glen Field' on 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Cropmark of enclosing ditch of woodland plantation visible on aerial images. Could be the remains of a folly/gazebo or a designed landscape feature associated with the woodland plantation.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage taken 26/01/2018
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien based on details provided by Jean-Charles Caillère
Date of upload: 12 November 2020
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.