Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Leacht
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Laghta Columbkille
- Coordinates
- 54.43080, -8.65584
- SMR number
- SL001-016001-
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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 a few meters to west of Templenaman enclosure (SL001-002002-), in an adjacent field; access via a stile.
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership. Traditionally known as Laghta Columbkille (Leachta Cholm Cille), this leacht is a rectilinear drystone structure with small and medium stones evenly coursed and brought to a fair face on all sides and surmounted by a loose arrangement of large slabs. It measures 1.45 m east/west by 1.5 m north/south and 0.95 m high. It supports a cross slab (SL001-016002-). A few flat stones to the south may be remnants of a paved path to the leacht.
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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.