Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Reachlainn Uí Bhirn, County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Reachlainn Uí Bhirn
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.66393, -8.82555
- SMR number
- DG089-018012-
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
Projecting from the north face of the cross-wall of the enclosure Herity (1995, 92) describes this as ‘the rectangular foundations of a leacht, 90cm by 90cm. projecting 90cm south from the north edge of the wall at a point 6.50m west of the corner opposite the entrance to House 2 [DG089-018007-]. Here is a broken stone of schist, 03b, with a U-notch at the edge, probably a base to hold a slab like that on the roof of the well-house [DG089-018002-]; this may now be away from its original position.’ This leacht contains a cross-slab (DG089-018016-).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 February 2014
References
Walsh, P. 1983 The monastic settlement on Rathlin O'Birne Island, County Donegal. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 113, 53-66.
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.