TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Graveyard

Drummans (Rosclogher By., Aghanlish ED), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Drummans, County Leitrim, 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
Drummans (Rosclogher By., Aghanlish ED)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church Yd.
Latest-edition OS map
Conwall Burial Ground
Coordinates
54.40835, -8.31318
SMR number
LE003-008002-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in a low-lying position on the floor of Glenade valley, the graveyard is known as Conwal graveyard. The church (LE003-008001-) is in the SW corner of the rectangular graveyard (dims c. 35m N-S; c. 30m E-W) defined by mortared stone walls. A grave-cover or prone headstone (LE003-008004-) bearing the date 1722 and the carving of an animal known as the 'Dobhar Chu' is within the graveyard, and there is a record of a holy well (LE003-008003-). There is also a headstone (LE003-008005-) with a carving of a horseman and a cross-inscribed stone (LE003-008006-).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 23 May, 2016

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Graveyard in Leitrim All County Leitrim records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map