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Ringfort - rath

Newcastle (Fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Newcastle, County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Newcastle (Fore By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.72345, -7.36846
SMR number
WM003-002----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a very slight rise in average pasture land on the landscaped demesne of Newcastle House 200m to N, the tree-lined driveway leading up to the house is located immediately W of the site. Tower House (WM003-001----) 90m to NW. Small roughly circular-shaped area (approx. diam. 20m N-S) defined by a the slight remains of a low earthen bank mainly reduced to a scarp and traces of a shallow external fosse with possible entrance gap at SSE. The interior is fairly even and featureless with a very slight slope from W to E. Not depicted as an antiquity on any edition of the OS 6-inch map. Its close proximity to Newcastle House may suggest that this circular feature was a possible tree-ring associated with the landscaping of the demesne.

Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 8 December 2016

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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