Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Roscam, County Galway, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.