Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackan (Leitrim By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackan (Leitrim By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.08811, -8.38101
- SMR number
- GA125-090----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On a N-facing slope in grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m); partially levelled by the time of the 1920 edition. All that survives is a curving tree-lined scarp from W to N.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2019
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.