Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Cruach Na Cara, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruach Na Cara
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.30446, -9.91731
- SMR number
- GA076-020020-
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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 the ecclesiastical remains at the SE end of Cruach na Cara/St Macdara’s Island and located immediately to the E of the church (GA076-020001-). Described by Bigger (1896, 104-6) as ‘a stone enclosure, heaped with stones, known as the Saint’s Bed’, this leacht is roughly rectangular in plan and its limits are marked by irregular granite boulders on the N, E and S sides. The W limit is defined by a very large granite slab (L 1.55m) which decreases in height and thickness from N (H 0.62m; T 0.25m) to S (H 0.55m; T 0.16m). The interior is strewn with boulders. There are four other leachta or penitential stations nearby - see GA076-020003-, GA076-020004-, GA076-020006- and GA076-020010-.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.