
What is recorded here
On the NE-facing slope of a hill in pastureland. Named on the OS 6-inch maps and described in OS Letters as 'a mound of earth and stones [called] Leacht Liocáin' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 1, 494). It consists of a collapsed subrectangular stone structure (c. 4m N-S; c. 3.8m; E-W; H c. 0.5m) delimited by the foundations of a drystone wall (Wth 1.1m). The interior is littered with stone. An enclosure (GA106-104001-) may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 March 2019
A local holy well or ritual site; wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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