Leacht in Drumacoo, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On the NW slope of a possible cairn (GA103-118011-); this possible leacht, almost square in plan (2.5m NE-SW; 2.4m NW-SE) is defined by large rectangular blocks (L 0.7m; Wth 0.3m; T 0.15m) and some smaller stones. It is three courses high on the SE side, two on the SW and NE sides and just one course high on the NW side. A hawthorn tree standing close to the N corner overhangs the structure. A cross-base and two fragments of the shaft (see GA103-118008-) are visible in the W corner of it.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-118013

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Photo credits

Rryswny, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dr Charles Nelson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, archaeology.org
Tom Cosgrave, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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