Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - unclassified
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
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23107, -8.30963
- SMR number
- LE014-004003-
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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
The founders of the Creevelea Abbey (LE014-004001-), Eoin O'Rourke who died in 1528 and his wife Margaret who died in 1512, were buried in a magnificent tomb in the chancel (O'Connell 1937, 138), but the tomb does not survive.
Date of upload: 07 December 2011
References
O'Connell, P. 1937 The Diocese of Kilmore: its history and antiquities. Dublin. Browne and Nolan.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 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.