Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Castle - motte
Lackagh More, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackagh More
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Tumulus
- Coordinates
- 53.16139, -6.99146
- SMR number
- KD022-016----
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
At the base of a slope in tillage, with a slight ridge to the NE. A ruined tower house (KD022-017----) stands c. 150m to the E, with a church (KD022-018----) and graveyard (KD022-018001-) just beyond to the ENE. An overgrown, circular, steep-sided, earthen mound (H. 4m; est. base diam. c. 35m ) with a concave summit (diam. 16m), is girdled by a shallow fosse (Wth. 2m) with traces of an outer bank.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 06 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.