Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackancahill, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackancahill
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 54.22136, -9.06397
- SMR number
- SL016-026----
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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
Situated on a raised area in undulating pasture. Raised circular platform (diam. 26.3m) enclosed at S by a much degraded, earthen bank (Wth 5.8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 2.8m). Elsewhere the bank is reduced to a scarp (H 2.2m at W). There is a deep depression (Wth 5m) outside the scarp at NE–SE but it is not clear if this represents a fosse or results from relatively recent quarrying. A break (Wth. c. 2m) in the bank at SSE may represent the original entrance. The enclosed area has been disturbed by quarrying.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 19 January 2011
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.