Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (ballymoe By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (ballymoe By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69906, -8.33959
- SMR number
- RO034-022----
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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 E-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 26.4m N-S) defined by slight traces of an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth c. 3-3.5m; int. H 0.1-0.2m; ext. H 1.2m) SSE-W-NNW which is reduced to a scarp (H 1m) elsewhere, and an outer rounded fosse (Wth of top 5.6-6m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.4m). There is an entrance through the bank (Wth 1.2m), but no causeway, at WSW and the edge of the platform has been quarried ENE-SSE (max. ext. diam. 38m N-S).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Pitfieldunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.