Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Sceilg Mhichíl, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 51.77217, -10.53866
- SMR number
- KE104A001158-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1841 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
For descriptive account see O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996, 278-90, no. 948 (11)). In 2001 limited archaeological excavation of the leacht, which is traditionally known as the 'Monks' Graveyard', involved the removal of 19th-century and later drystone revetment (Bourke 2003, 170). This work revealed that the Monks' Graveyard consisted of two conjoined leachta. This is the southernmost leacht.
Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork.
Date of upload: 30 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.