Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackagh, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackagh
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.91696, -8.01484
- SMR number
- RO012-004----
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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 knoll. Circular grass and rush-covered area (diam. 33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4.7-5m; int. H 0.4-1m; ext. H 0.8-1.25m), which is incorporated into a field bank NNW-E, and traces of a fosse visible as a band of rushes (Wth 2.5m) at ESE. The entrance (Wth 3.5m) is at SSE, and a drain has been dug outside the bank S-NW. The S bank of the Doon of Drumsna linear earthwork (RO011-058----) is c. 50m to the N.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.