Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newdown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newdown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51058, -7.22791
- SMR number
- WM020-106----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 natural rise, in gently undulating pasture, with good views in all directions. Annotated 'Fort' 1837 OS Fair Plan map. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 40m N-S; 35m E-W). Monument described in 1970 as traces of an oval-shaped earthwork which is bisected by a modern field fence running WNW-ESE. The perimeter is defined by a short segment of well-defined scarp (H 1.5m) at W with a modern trench (Wth at top 2.6m; basal Wth 1.5m; D 0.45m) at the base and by a very vague scarp from SE-S-SW. The monument appears to have been destroyed in the process of quarrying of rock. Monument is not visible on Digital Globe aerial photography due to shadow cast by field boundary running E-W.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 08 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.