Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Leny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.61448, -7.43269
- SMR number
- WM011-023----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 steep SE facing slope of a high hill in grassland with good views to E &S, marshy ground 90m to S. Ringfort (WM011-022---) 90m to W. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 20m N-S) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank with possible entrance gap (Wth 1.2m) at NE. The bank has several disturbance gaps and is best preserved from SW-N, elsewhere almost completely levelled. The interior has a steep slope from WNW-ESE.
See attached profile of monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 14 June 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.