Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Killynan (pratt), County Westmeath, Ireland
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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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 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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.