Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Commons, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cashel
- Coordinates
- 54.01795, -7.83501
- SMR number
- LE025-096004-
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
Situated towards the N and E edge of a plateau with rock outcrop. The medieval church (LE025-096001-) and the rectangular graveyards are imposed on the surrounding curvilinear earthworks. These cover an area of about 15 ha (c. 60 acres) and are protected by a Preservation Order (No. 3/1994). They consist of grass-covered earth and stone banks (Wth 4-6m; H 0.5-1m) which form a roughly circular ecclesiastical enclosure (diam. c. 110m) around the principal church, which is undoubtedly the site of the original church.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/1994).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 July, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.