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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
Crossatemple
Coordinates
54.43064, -8.65541
SMR number
SL001-003001-

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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 close to an eroding shoreline cliff edge, at the SE end of the enclosure (SL001-002002-) which surrounds Templenaman church (SL001-002001-) and graveyard (SL001-002007-).
This leacht is named ‘Crossatemple’ on the 1837 and 1912 OS 6-inch maps. It is a well-made rectilinear cairn of flat slabs and small rubble, measuring 2.4 m north/south by 1.6 m east/west and 0.8 m high. It is surmounted by an ornate cross slab (SL001-003002-) and also by several beach rolled cobbles, possibly ‘cursing stones’ (these are not decorated). Several small unmarked grave stones (sandstone slabs) cluster about the foot of the leacht on the south and east and some flat slabs lying within the turf on the south side may be a remnant of paving.
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership.

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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