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
- 53.61404, -7.42796
- SMR number
- WM011-024----
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 a slight natural rise surrounded by gently undulating grassland with marshy land 160m to SW. Ringfort (WM011-023----) 275m WNW. A circular shaped area (approx. diam. 31m NNE-SSW) enclosed by a substantial earthen bank and a steep wide external fosse. The bank has several disturbance gaps. The fosse is best preserved from SSW-W-NNW. The interior slopes slightly from NNE-SSW. A field fence running NE-SW intersects the site from E-S.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.