Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lacka (pubblebrien By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lacka (pubblebrien By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1927)
- Coordinates
- 52.52850, -8.65109
- SMR number
- LI031-013----
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
On a gentle NW-facing slope, in pasture to S and tillage to N, N section of monument forms the townland boundary with Cahirduff. An enclosure (LI031-014----) lies 75m to SE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as an oval-shaped earthwork (60m NW-SE; 47m NE-SW). Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as a semicircular-shaped area (dims. 16m NNW-SSE; 30m WSW-ENE) enclosed by a bank (Wth 6.7m; int. H 0.75m; ext. H 2.45m) which is incorporated into a field boundary from WSW-W-N-E. A fosse (Wth 5.85m; D 1.05m) is visible from WSW-W-N-E and has been re-cut as a field drain. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped area defined by a field boundary from WSW-W-N-E and by a cropmark from E-S-SW-WSW on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018.
See attached Google Earth orthoimage and sketch plan, cross-sections and photographs surveyed and taken by the ASI.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 30 October 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.