Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Reachlainn Uí Bhirn, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reachlainn Uí Bhirn
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66395, -8.82554
- SMR number
- DG089-018003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Herity 1995, 92 records that the rectangular foundations of this leacht ‘1.50m north-west/south-east and 1.75m south-west/north-east, are marked on the north-east and north-west sides by regular flat slabs. Cross-slab 04 [DG089-018007-] of schist, stands upright close to the centre.’ Lying loose on the leacht is a stone described by Herity (ibid, 98, No. 03b) as having ‘maximum dimensions 43 x 25cm and 7cm in thickness, with one well marked notch, 2cm deep, on one long face and with what may be the remains of a weathered notch, 6cm deep, in one of the short sides. Possibly the remains of a socket-stone for one of the cross-slabs.’
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 February 2014
References
Herity, M. 1995 Two Island Hermitages in the Atlantic: Rathlin O'Birne, Donegal, and Caher Island, Mayo. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 125, 85-128.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.