Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lackagh, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackagh
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.84337, -8.48719
- SMR number
- DG064-029----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In rough, rocky upland pasture, located on a grassy terrace backed on the S side by a steeply rising slope, broken by rock-outcropping. Ground falls away to NW and N in a series of rough, rocky terraces, and a narrow rocky ravine c. 100m to NW leads W down to the cliff-edged shoreline. Lough Free is located c. 500m to W. A high ridge, Dunmore Hill, rises to N. There is a spring/stream 10m to NW.
Low circular platform (13m NW−SE; 12m NE−SW) defined by a scarp (H 0.3m at NE−E; 0.6m SW−W) topped by remnants of a stone bank/wall. The platform is built up on the W half to compensate for the natural fall of ground and create a level interior. The enclosing wall (Wth 1.2−1.4m) consists merely of intermittent stones barely protruding from the sod, representing the inner and outer kerb of the wall. There are relict cultivation ridges on the terrace surrounding the enclosure.
Attached images:
DG064-029----_01.JPG Enclosure viewed from W
DG064-029----_02.JPG Enclosure viewed from E
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 22 July 2021
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.