Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Lakill And Moortown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lakill And Moortown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.67743, -7.25734
- SMR number
- WM007-012----
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 low rise of ground in undulating pasture-land. Lough Lene 700m to SE. A barrow-cemetery consisting of seven barrows (WM007-014----; WM007-016----; WM007-017----; WM007-018----; WM007-015----; WM007-015001-) approx. 370m to E. Levelled monument which appears as a crop mark on OSI aerial photographs taken 2005 and digital globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Field boundaries immediately to W of monument as depicted on OS 6-inch maps have also been levelled. Described by the ASI in 1976 as a sub-circular area (approx. diam. 22m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by a well preserved earthen bank and slight traces of a fosse from W-NW and at NE. Wide entrance gap at E, possibly widened in recent times. The interior slopes slightly from NW-SE, with traces of cultivation ridges. Modern field fence running alongside monument on the W.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
See attached profile section of levelled monument surveyed and drawn by the ASI in 1976.
Date of upload: 11 April 2017
References
ASIAP - Archaeological Survey of Ireland Aerial Photographs (c. 1996 - c. 2010).
Nearby in the register
- Barrow - pond barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ditch barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - bowl-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.