Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (ballintober North By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.76512, -7.91350
- SMR number
- RO030-003----
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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
On a gentle W-facing slope, c. 1.3 km NW from the River Shannon. Circular overgrown area (diam. 56m E-W; 55.1m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 5.7-9.3m; int. H 0.7-1.5m; ext. H 2.2-3m) and a rounded fosse (Wth of top 8.8-10.8m; Wth of base 3-4.5m; D. 1.5-2m). There are traces of an outer bank (Wth 4m; H 0.5m) S-SW and a collapsed field wall on the outer edge of the fosse N-E. There is a modern entrance (Wth 4.5m) at E. A post-medieval lime-kiln was found c. 60m to the NW in archaeological testing (03E0007) during 2003 (Henry 2006a).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Henry, M. 2006a Newtown: limekiln. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 425, No. 1588. Bray. Wordwell.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.