Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht cuimhne
Rafarn (Kilmeen ED), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rafarn (Kilmeen ED)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Laghtsidura or Soldiers Grave
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghtsidura or Soldiers Grave
- Coordinates
- 53.18474, -8.47943
- SMR number
- GA106-141----
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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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In level grassland. This poorly preserved mortared rubble core of a rectangular leacht-style monument
(H 1.9m; c. 1.5m N-S; c. 1.35m E-W) is now robbed of any facing stones or dedicatory inscription. While very irregular in outline, four faces can be identified.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 January 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.