What is recorded here

Lacka holds a broad oval rath where a degraded earthen bank still circles a gentle slope, marking a place people shaped before maps remembered it. Cattle graze above the buried line today, yet the ground keeps its own boundary, slightly proud against the pasture. The fort does not need a name in ledgers to be real; it is a room the earth built for human life, waiting for someone to notice the shape.

On a gentle NW-facing slope, in pasture, 90m S of a townland boundary with Cahirduff. An enclosure (LI031-013----) lies 75m to NW. Not depicted on OSi historic maps. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2007 and described as an oval-shaped area (38m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by the remains of much degraded bank (Wth 10.7m; int. H 0.35m; ext. H 0.55m) from NW-N-NNE and from E-ESE-SE and by a scarp (Wth 3.0m; H 0.25m) from WNW-NW, from NNE-NE with external fosse (Wth 9m; D 0.05m) visible from ENE-E-SE and traces of an outer bank (Wth 12.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.45m) evident from E-ESE. The interior has a gentle WNW-facing slope. Monument is visible as an oval-shaped cropmark (75m NW-SE; 69m NE-SW) on OSi aerial orthoimage taken 2005-2012 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 25/03/2017. See attached Google Earth orthoimage and sketch plan, cross-sections and photographs surveyed and taken by the ASI. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 30 October 2020

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