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Laghtnasaggart

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In a low-lying position in a peaty wet flush by the north shore at the NW end of Inishmurray. This leacht is not indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, but is named ‘Laghtnasaggart’ (Leacht na Sagart or ‘The Priests’ Leacht’) on the 1912 edition. Scarcely anything remains of this obscure site which is almost entirely…

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In a low-lying position in a peaty wet flush by the north shore at the NW end of Inishmurray. This leacht is not indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map, but is named ‘Laghtnasaggart’ (Leacht na Sagart or ‘The Priests’ Leacht’) on the 1912 edition. Scarcely anything remains of this obscure site which is almost entirely destroyed by storm damage/marine erosion. Within low moorland grasses, two small orthostatic flags stand 3 m apart and are, respectively, 3 m and 7 m from the shore. Small angular rubble is scattered widely. Some of this is storm rubble; but some of the smaller stones are washing out of meandering rivulets from the peaty flush. The monument was in no better shape when seen by Wakeman (1893, 137), who recorded ‘a little inland from the brink of the cliff, a very slight grassy elevation, through which a few bleached stones appear, is styled by the natives Leacht-na-Sagart.’ Evidently the monument has been denuded for well over a hundred years. A short segment of low drystone walling to the west, immediately on the cliff edge, is probably a kelp-drying wall. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Cork. The Collins Press.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL001-008

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