Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43171, -8.65687
- SMR number
- SL001-001032-
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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
Built against the exterior face of the enclosing wall on the N side of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL001-001001-), known as The Cashel.
This is a large tabular cairn or leacht appended on the north face of the Cashel. In contrast to the smaller leachta (SL001-001-001013-; SL001-001019-; SL001-001-021-) within the Cashel, this is built with small, medium and large rounded and angular rubble, rather than well-laid courses of flat stone. The leacht measures 3.1 m long, 2.1 m wide and is 1 m high.
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.