What is recorded here

Leacht in Kill (ballindoon Par.) is a short drystone wall with a niche near the old entrance of the Kilflannann Church graveyard in County Galway. Coins, prayer cards and white quartz stones still mark it as a place where people set things down for the dead or for luck. The wall may be all that remains of a larger rectangular leacht, but even this small edge gives the kill a shape: a boundary between living road and buried time.

In the S sector of the graveyard (GA035-048002-) associated with Kilflannann Church (GA035-048001-), close to the original entrance. This consists of a short stretch of drystone walling (L 2m; H 0.5m) with a wall niche (L 0.7m; D 0.3-0.4m) on the E face of its N end. A number of coins and prayer cards were visible in the niche, and some white quartz stones had been placed on top of the wall. On inspection the site was very overgrown but further traces of walling were visible extending eastwards off the N end (L 2m) and S end of the wall, suggesting that this could be the remains of a leacht that was rectangular in plan. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 165) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 22 February 2023

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