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Leacht

Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Leacht, Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cruach Na Cara
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.30463, -9.91722
SMR number
GA076-020010-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Associated with the ecclesiastical remains at the SE end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island. This leacht (2.7m E-W), one of five recorded on the island (see also GA076-020003-, GA076-020004-, GA076-020006- and GA076-020020-), is located within the S half of an enclosure (GA076-020014-) that lies c. 20m to the NE of the church (GA076-020001-). It is roughly rectangular in plan and is in a much-collapsed state. Only two set stones are visible on its W side and one on its S side. The interior is strewn with rubble. When photographed by Bigger (1896, 109, Fig. 7), the leacht was three to four courses high and a cross-slab (GA076-002009-), and ‘several spherical praying or "cursing" stones’ (GA076-020026-) were visible on top of it. Two of these stones are visible on its W side, one of limestone and one of granite. The cross-slab is now set in the ground c. 3m to the NNW of the leacht. A small spherical granite boulder on the ground to its W may also be one of the cursing stones. Another cross (see GA076-020022-) may be associated with this leacht. (Gosling 1993, 172, no. 977 c)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 6 June 2018

References

Bigger, F.J. 1896 Cruach Mac Dara, off the coast of Connamara: with a notice of its church, crosses, and antiquities. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 26, 101-12.

Gosling, P. (compiler) 1993 Archaeological inventory of County Galway, vol. 1: West Galway. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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