Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lackan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.63511, -7.41668
- SMR number
- WM006-055----
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
Situated on N face of a ridge running NW-SE on grassland with views to NE towards Lough Derravaragh. Earthwork (WM006-057----) 540m to SE. A circular area (approx. diam. 28m N-S) enclosed by a poorly preserved fragmentary earthen bank, shallow round-bottomed fosse and a fragmentary outer bank which has been levelled from SW-W-N. The interior slopes from WSW-ENE. There are several modern gaps in the outer bank.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 1 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.