Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mausoleum
Killan, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killan
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indcated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.96472, -6.95424
- SMR number
- CV028-027004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a knoll in an undulating landscape and at the head of a valley that extends off to the NE. Incorporated into the SW end of the parish church of Killane (CV028-027001-) is a sealed and inaccessible mausoleum (int. dims c. 4m NE-SW; 6.25m NW-SE) that has a NW-SE barrel-vault, a light on the SE wall, and a sealed doorway from the nave of the church. The blocked doorway now has a sandstone plaque (Wth 0.45m; H 0.56m) of probable eighteenth century date claiming the vault for the Cosby family. In a roundel is an image of a griffin with a broken spear in false relief. Beneath this is the inscription: THIS IS THE ANCIENT VAULT / OF THE COSBY FAMILY WHICH / FOR GENERATIONS HELD / A PROMINENT POSITION IN / THE COUNTY OF CAVAN.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 16 March 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.