Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Inishshark, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishshark
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Monument
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60446, -10.26908
- SMR number
- GA009D007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the SE end of Inishshark. Indicated in name only, in Roman script, on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map, this ‘Monument’ was probably associated with St Leo. No visible surface trace of it was noted on inspection in August 1984 and it is not precisely located. It may have been similar to leacht located c. 85m to the NW (see GA009D004----) or it could have been a wayside cairn (Kuijt et al. 2010, 63-4). (Gosling 1993, 170, no. 963)
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 March 2023
References
Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Kuijt I., Lash R., Gibbons M., Higgins J., Goodale N. and O'Neill, J. 2010 Reconsidering early medieval seascapes: new insights from Inis Airc, Co. Galway,Ireland. Journal of Irish Archaeology XIX, 51-70.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Hermitageunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.