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Ringfort - unclassified

Lack West, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ringfort - unclassified, Lack West, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Lack West
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Hachured
Coordinates
53.91682, -9.18277
SMR number
MA070-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, with some naturally outcropping rock, near the N-facing brow of a ridge with slightly higher ground to the S. Recorded on the OS 25-inch map (1893) as a raised oval shaped area (est. diams. c. 30m NNE-SSW; c. 25m ESE-WNW) – probably a ringfort – bisected by a later field boundary running NNE-SSW through the interior. The later, Cassini edition of the OS 6-inch map (1920) only records the E-half of the monument, to the E of the later field boundary. This boundary has been removed since and the monument survives as a circular hollow area (diam. c. 20m: D 0.2m), the interior of which slopes slightly down towards the N.

Date of visit: 21-8-2025

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Leo Morahan

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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