Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackan (athlone North By., Lackan Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackan (athlone North By., Lackan Ed)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Embanked enclosure
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.53741, -8.16739
- SMR number
- RO044-030001-
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 low knoll on a SW-facing slope. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 36.7m N-S; 35.9m E-W) defined by a grass-covered earth and stone bank (Wth 2-3.2m; int. H 0.3-0.5m; ext. H 0.9-1.2m), with slight traces of a flat-bottomed fosse (Wth of top 4.7m; Wth of base 2.2m; D 0.15m) N-NNE. A N-S field wall is built on the perimeter SW-NW. There are entrances at SSW (Wth 1.7m) and NNW (Wth 2m) which are probably modern.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.