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
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50011, -7.23523
- SMR number
- WM027-004----
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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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, overlooking bog to S and SW. Ringfort (WM027-001----) lies c. 125m to NE. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as an oval-shaped enclosure annotated ‘fort’, with a small circular-shaped enclosure inside it. Levelled monument described in 1971 as no surface remains visible. There are large boulders piled against the modern field boundary at NW which may have come from the monument. The site would have been suitable for a ringfort. No surface remains visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 04 November 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.