Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43146, -8.65678
- SMR number
- SL001-001021-
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located immediately to E of Templemolaise church (SL001-001009-), within an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL011-011001-).
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership. This drystone leacht measures 1.52 m east/west by 1.84 m north/south and is 0.7 m high. The sides are formed by well laid flat stones brought to course; the upper surface chiefly consists of larger flat slabs. There are several plain rounded beach cobbles on the surface. There was formerly a cross slab (L001-001022-); this is now in the Schoolhouse [OPW store]. On the south side is appended a low, regular bench, 0.55 m high and 0.35 m deep, also built with flat angular stones.
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
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.