Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Enclosure
Lackan, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lackan
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.63124, -7.42593
- SMR number
- WM006-077----
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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 in wet pastureland with ‘Tobercrummeen’ (WM006-064----) 10m to SSE and penitential station (WM006-053----) 200m to NW. Present remains consist of a large oval-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 65m N-S; 76m E-W) visible on Digital Globe aerial photograph taken November 2011. Traces of an internal dividing bank running NE-SW across the interior with a possible hut site also visible in S quadrant. Earthworks to SE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne & Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Penitential stationunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.