Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Oileán Máisean, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oileán Máisean
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30055, -9.88642
- SMR number
- GA076-011007-
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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
Associated with an early Christian church (GA076-011001-), which lies c. 20m to the SSE. This much-collapsed leacht (c. 3m N-S; 2.5m E-W) was probably originally rectangular in plan and most likely was similar to another leacht (GA076-011005-), c. 15m to the SE, which is visible within the enclosure (GA076-011003-) around the church. It is difficult to determine its exact limits due to its collapsed state. It is composed of granite boulders and one limestone slab was visible. A pillar stone (GA076-011008-), leaning sharply to the E, is evident its N half.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 29 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.