Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Creevelea (drumahaire By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
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-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.