Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Newcastle (Fartullagh By.), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newcastle (Fartullagh By.)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.40028, -7.35304
- SMR number
- WM033-055----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
On a prominent rise of ground with good views. Ringfort (WM033-059----) located 185m to the E. Circular-shaped area (diam. 43.5m N-S; 43.5m E-W) defined by a substantial earthen bank covered in trees and bushes and wide flat-bottomed fosse with low external bank that appears to have been altered from SSE-S-W-WNW when a trench was dug around the outside of the bank. Causewayed entrance gap (Wth 2.2m) at E, modern gap in outer bank at WNW. A public road running roughly N-S intersects the ringfort on the E side causing damage to the external bank of the monument.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 26 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.