Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Roscam, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Roscam
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26390, -8.98441
- SMR number
- GA094-072014-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Numerous architectural fragments are strewn about the graveyard (GA094-072003-) within the early ecclesiastical enclosure (GA094-072002-) at Roscam. Most are dressed and a number of bowtell mouldings are evident; the latter are most likely from the column of doorway or window of 13th-century date. The presence of so many fragments suggests the probability that there was formerly a church located within the graveyard and that it possibly pre-dates the church (GA094-072001-) c. 25m to the NW.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 19 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Holed stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.