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Ringfort - unclassified

Killynan (Pratt), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, 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
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56129, -7.20408
SMR number
WM020-145----

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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 atop hillock with good views in all directions. WM020-008---- located 235m to E, WM020-002---- located 235m to NW. Depicted as a small plantation of trees on 1st edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map. Only the E half of the monument survives above ground. It is bisected by a post and wire fence running on a N-S axis. No enclosing element could be identified in the field to the W of the field fence. Present remains consists of a circular area (diam. 25m N-S) enclosed by a low bank (Wth 1.5m; ext. H 0.5m) mainly degraded to a scarp with fosse (Wth 2m; ext. D. 0.2m) and traces of an external bank all of which is best preserved from N through E to SE. No entrance feature visible. Small semi-circular curving rise of ground in centre of enclosure intersected on W side by field fence running N-S may represent the remains of a partially destroyed hut site. Well preserved post-medieval cultivation ridges in field where the monument is best preserved.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 31 March 2016

References

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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