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
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50747, -7.69654
- SMR number
- WM016-041----
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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
Situated on a small steep-sided round-topped natural rise surrounded by low lying wet grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular shaped enclosure annotated on map as ‘fort’. Depicted as a partial enclosure on the revised 1914 ed. OS 6-inch map. This site has been almost completely levelled. All that remains is a curving scarp visible from W-N-NNE (H 1.2m). A field fence running E-W bisects the monument. No visible remains of enclosing element of monument on S side of bisecting field fence.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 September 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.