Earthwork in Newtown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Ed)

One chambered hall, one roofed court, one long room, one covered entry, one walled court and one closed chamber may have stood together beneath the soil. That is the shape hidden under Newtown, not a vague claim about lost grandeur. The measurement excludes the usual inventions and leaves a complete domestic place. A family may have lived there, tended its rooms and departed without warning. The earth kept the plan while human memory vanished.