Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Kilmeen, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmeen
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Leaght Liocan
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leaght Liocan
- Coordinates
- 53.20240, -8.49703
- SMR number
- GA106-104002-
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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
On the NE-facing slope of a hill in pastureland. Named on the OS 6-inch maps and described in OS Letters as 'a mound of earth and stones [called] Leacht Liocáin' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 494). It consists of a collapsed subrectangular stone structure (c. 4m N-S; c. 3.8m; E-W; H c. 0.5m) delimited by the foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 1.1m). The interior is littered with stone. An enclosure (GA106-104001-) may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 March 2019
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.