Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Lynn, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lynn
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.49485, -7.36053
- SMR number
- WM026-003002-
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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
Early Christian monastery of Lynn (Lann Mhic Luacháin) founded by St. Colmán (Mocholmoc) abbot of Lynn, who died in 699 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 41). Colmán was reputedly the son of Luacháin, of the Clann Cholmáin although others claim he was descended from the Conall Creamhthainne of the southern Ui Néill, and to the Clanna Rudhraighe of north-east Ulster (Ó Riain 2011, 196-7). Possible Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure identified by Swan (1988, 13) who recorded that there was evidence of a possible enclosure in the quadrantal form of the boundary wall of Lynn graveyard (WM026-003001-).
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 24 August 2015
References
Swan, D.L. 1988 The Early Christian ecclesiastical sites of County Westmeath. In J. Bradley (ed.), Settlement and society in Medieval Ireland: studies presented to F.X. Martin O.S.A., 1-31. Kilkenny. Boethius Press.
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.