Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newcastle (fore By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
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----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.