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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
Indicated
Coordinates
54.43072, -8.67003
SMR number
SL001-007004-

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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

On a cliff-edge, located 2m S of an enclosure (SL001-007006-), which incorporates a hermitage (SL001-007001-), and a leacht ((SL001-007002-).
This small complex of monuments, in danger of collapse at the eroding cliff edge, was fully excavated (licence: 97E0256) in 1997 in advance of its reconstruction by the OPW on its current location at a safe distance from the cliff-edge (O’Sullivan and Ó Carragáin 2008, 216-239).
This monument, possibly a collapsed leacht, took the form of a small cairn (max. dim. c. 3m; H 0.6m) composed largely of rounded stones, with a roughly laid kerb of larger stones at its base. The excavation did not provide sufficient evidence to determine its exact function, date or relationship to the adjacent monuments (ibid, 176, 226-7).

Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy

Date of upload: 23 January 2018

References

O'Sullivan J. and Ó Carragáin T. 2008 Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. The Collins Press. Cork.

Nearby in the register

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

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