Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hut site
Leitir Seithe, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitir Seithe
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.48475, -9.90916
- SMR number
- GA036-024----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In cut-away bogland on an upland terrace on a ridge extending to the W from the 12 Bens mountain range with panoramic views all round, overlooking Roundstone bog and Árainn to the S, Clifden to the W and the mountains to the E.
Recorded by M. Gibbons, this possible stone hut site (4.5m NE-SW; 3m NW-SE), roughly subrectangular in plan, is well defined on three of its four sides. The wall on the N side (H 0.25m; Wth 0.9m) curves and incorporates two large boulders in its external wall-face; a white quartz boulder is visible in the internal face. In the centre of the E and W walls (Wth 0.4-0.6m) stones at right angles to the walls appear to mark doorways. The S wall, which is not as clearly defined as the others, abuts outcropping rock and it appears to have been partially robbed out. The interior is level and possible traces of a roughly laid flag floor are visible. A cist (GA036-025----) lies c. 25m to the SW.
The following images have been uploaded courtesy of M. Gibbons:
GA036-024----_01.pdf View from NE
GA036-024----_02.pdf Tall upright stone, possibly marking a doorway, in W wall
GA026-024----_03.pdf Curving N section of walling
Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information provided by M. Gibbons
Date of upload: 19 April 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.