Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (clonbeg Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (clonbeg Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.42002, -8.18721
- SMR number
- TS073-020----
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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 S-facing slope at the base of the S side of Slievenamuck mountain, in gently undulating terrain, 10m N of the main road through the Glen of Aherlow. It is currently in the grounds of a camping park and the surrounding field has been cut to form a lawn around the monument. A small circular area (diam. 15.5m N-S; 16m E-W) enclosed by a bank (Wth 3.8m; int. H 0.25m; ext. H 1.28m) and fosse (Wth c. 5m; D 0.18m), the latter is not evident in the S quadrant. The edge of the enclosure from SE-W-NNW is heavily overgrown with brambles. The bank survives best from SE-W-NW and is completely denuded in the E quadrant where it appears to have been levelled into the fosse. This quadrant may be location of the entrance. The interior, which slopes to the S, is overgrown with long grass and brambles.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.