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Mausoleum

Killan, County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mausoleum, Killan, County Cavan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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