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Cartronatemple, County Leitrim, Ireland

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Townland
Cartronatemple
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not inidcated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.33824, -8.19938
SMR number
LE007-018004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

There is a record of a stone with the carving of an animal called 'Dobhar Chu' (Tohall 1948, 127-9) in Kilroosk graveyard (LE007-018002-), which has many folk tales associated with it, but the stone has been missing since c. 1918. (Ruickbie 2016, 52)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 25 January, 2016
Amended 24 June 2019

Ruickbie, L. 2016 The Impossible Zoo. Robinson, London

Tohall, P. 1948 The Dobhar-Chu tombstones of Glenade, Co. Leitrim. (Cemeteries of Congbhail and Cill-Ruisc). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 78, 127-9.

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

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