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Crosserlough, County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Crosserlough, 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
Crosserlough
County
Cavan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.87548, -7.29038
SMR number
CV032-007001-

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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

Located on a knoll towards the top of a W-facing slope. This is the parish church of Crosserlough parish, known as Kildrumferton during the Middle Ages when a portion of its tithes were impropriate to the Benedictine abbey of Fore (WM004-035010-) (Kelly 2017, 76). It is identified as the church of SS Patrick Carhac and St Bridget with references in 1422 and 1425 (Davies 1948, 81). The outline of a rectangular structure (int. dims 19.2m E-W; 7m N-S) in interrupted sections of low grass-covered walls (Wth 0.9m; max. H 0.6m) can barely be discerned within a circular graveyard (diam. c. 54m NE-SW; c. 50m NW-SE). The graveyard is defined by a drystone wall (at E: Wth 1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.4m) with mature deciduous trees and material accumulated against its inner face. A masonry wall retains the rising mound of the neglected graveyard along the roadside SW-NW. There are relatively few headstones, dating largely to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload: 22 December 2008

Revised by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 16 March 2020

References

Davies, O. 1948 The churches of county Cavan. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 78, 73-118.

Kelly, L. 2017 The Diocese of Kilmore c. 1100-1800. Dublin, Columba Press

Nearby in the register

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

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