Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Killynan (pratt), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killynan (pratt)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.56202, -7.20920
- SMR number
- WM020-001----
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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 low round-topped hillock, in gently undulating pasture, in a former deer park of Killynan House. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 50m E-W; 38m N-S). Ringfort (WM020-002----) lies c. 40m to E, enclosure (WM020-144----) c. 150m to NW and hut site (WM020-146----) c. 175m to NW.
Monument described in 1972 as a broad oval-shaped area (approx. diam. 28m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by a low steep sided earth and stone bank with no visible trace of an external fosse. The bank is reduced to a scarp from SSE-S-W-N and the original entrance is not visible. The interior rises from the perimeter to the centre. A hut site (WM020-001001-) is located on the upper edge of the scarp at NE and this feature is clearly visible on oblique aerial photograph taken on 20/07/1970 (CUCAP BDV085). An old field bank intersects the scarp at SSW and W. Monument is visible today as an oval-shaped earthwork on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 June 2019
References
CUCAP - Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photographs. Unit for Landscape Modelling, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. See:https://www.cambridgeairphotos.com
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.