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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50474, -7.70258
- SMR number
- WM023-020----
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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 the SSE-facing slope of a slight rise, in low-lying, wet pasture, with good views all around. Monument described in 1970s as a subcircular-shaped area (dims.30m N-S; 28.3m E-W) enclosed by a bank and external fosse with causewayed entrance gap (Wth at top 3.3m; basal Wth 1.6m) at SW. The bank is best preserved from SSE-S-SSW and is almost reduced to a scarp from SSW-W-NW and from E-SSE. The bank has been levelled and reduced to a slight scarp from NW-N-E. The external fosse is reasonably well preserved from E-SE and from S-W-NW. There are large field clearance boulders within the fosse at S and W. The interior has a gentle SE-facing slope and there is a quarry depression within the N quadrant. The enclosing bank of the ringfort survives today only from E-S-W where it is visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 24 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - 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.