Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone head
Kiltoghert, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltoghert
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97813, -8.03663
- SMR number
- LE027-079007-
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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
A carved bishop's head with his mitre (H 0.33cm; Wth 18cm; D 15cm) at the apex of a window moulding from a flat-arched window, probably dating from a fifteenth century redevelopment of Kiltoghert parish church (LE027-079001-), is set up in the graveyard beside the graveslab (LE027-079001-). There is a tale that at one of the first battles of the Nine Years War in 1593 at Tulsk, Co. Roscommon, Edmond Magauran, (McGowen or Moran), the Archbishop of Armagh, was killed. In order to prevent identification of the body, the head was removed and interred at Kiltoghert (Butler 1932, 74-5). While the death of Magauran is recorded (AFM 1593, 4), the aftermath is not.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 19 September 2017
References
Butler, Rev. J. 1932 Mong - A green hill among the grey ones. Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Archaeological Society 1 (3), 73-5.
AFM - Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters from the earliest period to the year 1616, ed. and trans. John O'Donovan (7 vols., Dublin, 1851; reprint New York, 1966)
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.