Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mound
Killynan (cooke), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killynan (cooke)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55273, -7.22392
- SMR number
- WM020-005----
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 flat, relatively low-lying ground which has been drained in modern times. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as an oblong-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 16m N-S; 10m E-W) c. 6m SE of a pond annotated ‘Spring’. Levelled monument described in 1970 as no surface remains visible. Monument is not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 05 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.