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Ringfort - rath

Killynan (Pratt), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - rath, Killynan (Pratt), County Westmeath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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