Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ritual site - holy well
Leitreach Ard, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leitreach Ard
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.37154, -9.85926
- SMR number
- GA063-012----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a small hill overlooking Cuan na Beirtrí Buí. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a natural round hollow (D 0.13m) in a sloping rock outcrop. A flat round stone is used as a lid and modern offerings are visible around it. There is a small cairn (H 0.8m), surmounted by a wooden cross, on a rock 3m to W, and another cairn (H 0.8m) 12m to E. (Robinson 1985, 45)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
- Ritual site - holy well1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.