Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - unclassified
Lackanwood, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackanwood
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Partially hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.65056, -7.43199
- SMR number
- WM006-031----
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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 slight rise in pasture-land 140m to the E of the Inny River. Bog 75m to S. Hachured on the OS 25 inch map as a semi-circular shaped curving earthwork defiend by a scarp from E-S-W only. A modern farmyard and out-buildings have been built against the W side of the monument. No surface trace visible. Cropmark of circular enclosure (approx. diam. 45m) or ringfort possible clearly visible on the Digital Globe Aerial photograph taken November 2011.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 30 January 2017
Nearby in the register
- Prehistoric site - lithic scatterunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.