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Graveyard

Oughteragh, County Leitrim, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Oughteragh, 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
Oughteragh
County
Leitrim
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Oughteragh Grave Yard
Coordinates
54.06413, -7.80452
SMR number
LE025-008002-

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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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a slight rise at the outer edge of a shelf towards the top of the E-facing slope of a broad drumlin. The site of the medieval parish church of Oughteragh (LE025-008001-) is within a small circular graveyard (diam. c. 30m) which is depicted at the E end of a lane (L c. 70m) from a public road to the W on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. The old graveyard still has a masonry wall on its perimeter NW-E-SE, but is now part of a large rectangular graveyard (dims c. 75m NE-SW; c. 75m NW-SE) that has been extended further to the SE and NE. The head of a pointed window from the church is in the graveyard, but a stone head known as St. Bridget’s Head (LE025-008004-) is now at the Roman Catholic church in Ballinamore (LE025-118----). There was a holy well dedicated to St Bridget (LE025-008003-) in the vicinity of the graveyard but its precise location is not known. The holy well (LE025-009----) c. 550m to the NNE is still frequented and reached by the lane running E from the graveyard and a path through the fields northwards.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 5 July, 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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