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
- 54.43114, -8.65230
- SMR number
- SL001-013003-
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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 within a small stone-built enclosure (SL001-013001-).
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership. Traditionally known as Treenode More (Tríonóid Mór or ‘Great Trinity [Leacht]’), this leacht stands centrally within the enclosure and is a well-made rectilinear cairn of evenly course flat stones, brought to a fair finish on all sides and a flat upper surface. It measures 1.53 m east/west by 1.4 m north/south and is 0.8m high. A fine cross-slab (SL001-013002-) surmounts. The leacht is remarkably well preserved, perhaps rebuilt on at least one occasion.
Another leacht (SL001-014001-), known as Treenode Beg, is located outside the enclosure, a few meters to W.
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: 19 February 2018
Nearby in the register
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed pillarunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.