Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Cartronatemple, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- 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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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
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.