Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure - large enclosure
Lacka (Loughkeen Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lacka (Loughkeen Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03399, -7.98809
- SMR number
- TN008-063----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture. A large oval enclosure (dims. c. 100m N-S; c. 92m E-W) defined by a bank is visible on satellite imagery (© Google Earth, imagery date 1 March 2010), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère. The enclosure is roughly bisected by a public road running WNW-ESE immediately N of the centre of the monument. A field boundary runs NNE-SSW across the northern portion of the enclosure, through the NW quadrant.
See attached images:
TN008-063----_01 Google Earth image (1 March 2010)
TN008-063----_02 DigitalGlobe image
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.