Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newtown (Delvin By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (Delvin By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.69083, -7.36157
- SMR number
- WM003-084----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on SW facing slope of rising ground in grassland. A sub-circular shaped area (approx. diam. 36m N-S; 31m E-W) enclosed by a broad earthen bank and a wide shallow external fosse. The interior slopes appreciably from NNE-SSW. The ringfort was levelled between the field report of 1973 and 1978 when it was described as having been ‘bulldozed away’. Visible as a faint crop-mark on the Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1973 before it was levelled.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Hilltop enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.