Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Killynan (cooke), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killynan (cooke)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.55183, -7.22536
- SMR number
- WM020-006----
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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 rise, in relatively low-lying and gently undulating pasture. Annotated 'Fort' on the 1837 OS Fair Plan. Depicted on the revised 1913 ed. OS 25-inch map as a suboval-shaped earthwork (approx. dims. 28m N-S; 30m E-W) defined by a scarp and fosse from S-W-N. Monument described in January 1970 as a roughly circular-shaped area defined by a scarp and external fosse. The scarp and fosse have been damaged by digging at SE. Monument described in March 1970 as having recently been levelled. It was then defined as a roughly circular-shaped cropmark (overall diam. 52m) of dark brown earth. Traces of a fosse are evident as a very shallow curvilinear depression (approx. Wth 7m; D 0.2m) from SW-W-N. 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
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Moundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
- Burial moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.