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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
Indicated
Coordinates
53.30446, -9.91731
SMR number
GA076-020020-

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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 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

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

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