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Leacht

Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Leacht, Inishmurray, County Sligo, 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
Inishmurray
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.43139, -8.65708
SMR number
SL001-001013-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located S of centre in the interior of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL011-011001-), known as ‘The Cashel’.
This well-built leacht measures 2 m east/west by 1.8 m north/south and is 0.9 m high. The base is partly formed by flat slabs, edge-set (cist-like); over these the sides are raised in small and medium flat stones, evenly coursed and generally fair-faced. On the surface is a very diverse mass of stones including: numerous undecorated beach cobbles; several cross-inscribed beach cobbles, known as the 'Clocha Breaca' or cursing stones (SL001-001015-), a group of three plano-convex stones, one having a disc-shaped ‘stopper’ which rotates in a cavity on its top; and a tall, oblong block (SL001-001016-), on a tapered foot, which also has a ‘stopper’ on top, as well as cross-inscribed sides. In addition, the fragments of a cross slab with flabellum (SL001-001018-) were recorded by Wakeman on this leacht.

The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:

Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.

Date of upload: 16 January 2018

Nearby in the register

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

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