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Leacht

Acaill Bheag, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Leacht, Acaill Bheag, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Acaill Bheag
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Altars
Coordinates
53.86675, -9.96332
SMR number
MA075-001012-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located within a rath (MA075-001008) which is enclosed within a promontory fort (MA075-001001-). Two small circular features labelled ‘Altars’ are indicated on the 1920 OS 6-inch map, one (MA075-001011-) within a children’s burial ground in the SE quadrant of the rath, and one (MA075-001012-) to W of the burial ground. They are both listed in the SMR (1991) and the RMP (1997) as 'altar'. Westropp (1914, 315) described the leacht (MA075-001011-) within the children’s burial ground as ‘ a circular ‘altar’ of slabs 6 feet [1.8m] each way and barely 3 feet [0.9m] high, heaped with white quartz pebbles’ and he noted this leacht as ‘A similar leacht stands outside the Killeen 54 feet [c. 16m] westward.’

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 7 August 2015

References

Westropp, T.J. 1914 The promontory forts and early remains of the islands of Connacht. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 44, 297-337.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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