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Leacht

Roscam, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Leacht, Roscam, 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
Roscam
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.26400, -8.98435
SMR number
GA094-072013-

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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

Located in the NE corner of the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. This possible leacht (3.65m N-S; 2.8m E-W; max. H 1.1m) is rectangular in plan and is defined by large boulders on all sides. The W and N sides are best preserved where regularly coursed massive cyclopean-like boulders are visible; one boulder on the W side is 1.2m long and 0.45m high. The E and S sides are in a more collapsed state and large boulders from both sides are strewn about on the ground immediately to the E and S. The interior is also strewn with boulders.

The following images have been uploaded:
GA094-072013-_02 View of collapsed leacht from SE
GA094-072013-_03 View from S
GA094-072013-_04 N side
GA094-072013-_06 W side

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 19 May 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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