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Field system
Lacken (ballaghkeen By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lacken (ballaghkeen By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not idicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41104, -6.48341
- SMR number
- WX032-052002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a slight W-facing slope in the basin of the River Sow with the N-S stream at the W edge. An area of c. 8 ha contains an enclosure (WX032-052001-) and nine ring-ditches that are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs (MM (51) 6-15). Also within the area are the cropmarks of a number of field banks from a rectangular field system, not all of which are recorded on OS maps and some of which terminate at the enclosure. The field banks are generally straight and identified as single ditch-features.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 31 August, 2012
Nearby in the register
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.