Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Building
Church Island, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04976, -7.71472
- SMR number
- LE025-060004-
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In 1942 the ITA Survey recorded that 'around the church ruins are signs of other buildings having once stood here also but nothing of any definite shape or form is visible' (SMR File). No trace of such structures can be identified now.
Date of upload/revision : 16 December 2011
References
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Irish Tourist Association. Surveys undertaken in the 1940s for the Irish Tourist Association (now Fáilte Ireland) relating to ‘Natural features, antiquities, historic associations etc.' Extracts from these surveys were copied into the Topographical files of the Office of Public Works and these have been incorporated into the Sites and Monuments Record files (National Monuments Service).
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.