Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Diffreen, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Diffreen
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Killeenora Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 54.32625, -8.32784
- SMR number
- LE006-015002-
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a knoll on the floor of Glencar valley. A square graveyard (dims 32mN-S; 32m E-W), defined by mortared stone walls (H 1.4m), is possibly on the site of an early ecclesiastical site founded by St Osnat or Osnad in the 6th century (LE006-015001-). The graveyard has been extended to the W (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 30m N-S). The head of a stone cross (LE006-015003-) is thought to have been moved from here to the Roman Catholic church of Dromahair (NMI file), where it cannot now be found.
Date of upload: 23 September, 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Penal Mass stationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.