Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Inis Oírr, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inis Oírr
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Altar
- Latest-edition OS map
- Altar
- Coordinates
- 53.05725, -9.51875
- SMR number
- GA120-028001-
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
Within the SE quadrant of a cashel (GA120-028005-). Named 'Altar' on the OS 6-inch maps, this leacht (2m NW-SE; 1.7m NE-SW; H 0.8m) is defined by a roughly rectangular pile of drystone masonry. Slabs protruding above the sod to the E and S of it may mark possible graves (GA120-028008-) (information from Dr J. Waddell).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 22 January 2016
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Structureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.