Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Road - road/trackway
Commons, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Commons
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.01858, -7.83537
- SMR number
- LE025-096008-
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 large medieval church (LE025-096001-) and the rectangular graveyards are imposed on the curvilinear earthworks that cover an area of about 15 ha (c. 60 acres) and are protected by a Preservation Order (PO no. 3/1994). The earthworks include a roadway which approaches the ecclesiastical enclosure (LE025-096004-) from the N (L c. 90m). The road appears to run directly to the W doorway of the church, and is probably late in date. It re-emerges from the S angle of the old graveyard and extends S (L c. 50m). Most of the earthworks are possibly early medieval in date and are best appreciated from the air (Norman and St Joseph 1969, 109-10).
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
References
Norman, E.R. and St Joseph, J.K. 1969a The early development of Irish society. The evidence of aerial photography. Cambridge University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.