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Graveyard

Creevelea (Drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Creevelea, 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
Creevelea (Drumahaire By.)
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
54.23133, -8.30977
SMR number
LE014-004002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a shoulder overlooking the Bonet River, which is c. 150m to the NE. A small, old graveyard (dims c. 25m E-W; c. 10-20m N-S), where many of the headstones have been recorded (Crawford 1916c) extends N down the slope from the cloister of Creevelea Abbey (LE014-004001-), while archaeological testing (03E0166) for a new graveyard to the S produced no related material (Read 2006).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 10 May 2016

References

Read, C. 2006 Creevelea, Dromahair: no archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 301, No. 1107. Bray, Wordwell

Nearby in the register

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

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