Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - tree-ring
Lynn, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lynn
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.50578, -7.34331
- SMR number
- WM026-009----
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 a ridge, in pasture, with extensive views in all directions. Depicted as an earthwork on Larkin’s 1808 map of Co. Westmeath (NLI, MS 46,580). Not shown as an antiquity on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch where it is depicted as an oval-shaped tree-planted area (approx. dims. 98m NE-SW; 64m NW-SE) on the grounds of Lynn Lodge (formerly Lynn House, 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map). Levelled site described in 1978 as no surface remains visible. Earthwork not visible today on Digital Globe aerial photography and this area has been incorporated into the gardens of two modern houses. Probably the site of a post-1700 tree-ring associated with the landscaping of Lynn House
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 30 September 2019
References
NLI, MS 46,580 - National Library of Ireland, A map of the county of Westmeath by William Larkin. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.