Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lynn, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lynn
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.50466, -7.33959
- SMR number
- WM026-010----
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 slight rise, in gently undulating pasture, with extensive views to W, NW and N. Monument described in 1963 as a roughly subtriangular-shaped tree-planted earthwork enclosed by a slight bank and external fosse. Levelled monument described in 1971 as a roughly oval-shaped area (dims. 33.5m NW-SE; 32.4m NE-SW) defined from ESE-S-W-N by a gentle undulation in the ground and elsewhere by a curve in the modern field fence. There are other gentle undulations both inside and outside the monument area. The interior has a gentle NE-facing slope. Levelled monument visible today as an oval-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.
Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.
Date of upload: 30 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 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.