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
- 53.50316, -7.84839
- SMR number
- WM022-010----
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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 gentle NNE-Facing slope, in pasture with good views to N, E and NW. Monument described in 1971 as a large roughly circular-shaped area (diam. 44m) enclosed by a bank and external fosse. The bank is best preserved from SE-S-SW and is almost reduced to a scarp in places and is much disturbed by several small gaps. The exterior of the bank has been steepened and modified to form part of a modern field fence. The deep U-shaped external fosse is best preserved from SE-S-SW and is almost completely filled up from NE-E-SE. The original entrance is not visible. The interior has a gentle SSW-facing slope with traces of cultivation ridges running NNE-SSW.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 15 July 2019
Nearby in the register
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.