Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Leny, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leny
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61039, -7.43448
- SMR number
- WM011-028002-
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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
Possible ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 9) who recorded that there was evidence of a circular enclosure to SW of Leny graveyard (WM011-028001-). Traces of possible enclosure visible on Bing Maps aerial photograph (http://binged.it/1LUYs2t) to SW and W of graveyard.
See attached aerial photograph taken from Bing Maps at http://binged.it/1LUYs2t
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 31 July 2015
References
Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 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.