Relationships between the structure of a Lie algebra and that of its lattice of ideals is studied for those Lie algebras whose ideal lattice is very close to that of an almost-abelian Lie algebra. It is shown here that if the base field is algebraically closed, finite or the real one, for any n ≥3 the only solvable Lie algebra whose lattice of ideals is isomorphic to that of the (n+l)-dimensional almost-abelian Lie algebra is itself.