Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Acaill Bheag, County Mayo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Cistunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.