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What is recorded here

Newtown castle reduced to a bare ten-metre platform in Offaly fields. A two-and-a-half-metre ridge still runs east from it, perhaps the road that brought people to its door. The building departed without leaving cut stone or wall behind, as if the land kept the shape but gave back the rooms.

All that remains of this site is a raised square shaped platform (Dims. 9m E-W by 10m N-S). A curious ridge runs off the Eastern side of the platform, this ridge measures 2.5m wide and may have been the original roadway to the castle. There is no evidence of cut or decorated stone and no evidence of a bawn wall although this may have been located to the east of the castle where the modern orchard is located. The outhouses to the east of the castle displayed no evidence of worked stone from the castle in their walls (O' Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 74-5). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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