Settlement cluster in Lackan, County Wicklow

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What is recorded here

Situated on a marked SW-facing slope. Irregular pattern of small fields defined by earth and stone banks covering an area c. 1400m NW-SE by 400m NE-SW. Near the centre of the complex on the N edge there is a small group of rectangular houses (dims. c. 5.8m x 5m) and outhouse foundations representing two or three homesteads. A system of small fields with evidence of cultivation ridges occurs in the immediate vicinity of the houses and two further homesteads formed by houses and enclosed yards occur c. 50m to the north of the main settlement cluster.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WI005-091

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