Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Lisgillock Glebe, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisgillock Glebe
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Burial Gd. (Disused)
- Coordinates
- 53.96952, -7.76178
- SMR number
- LE029-029----
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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)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in a low-lying position in a farmyard. It is depicted as a rectangular area (dims c. 15m E-W; c. 15m N-S) described as a burial ground on the 1835 and 1911 editions of the OS 6-inch map. This is a subrectangular area (dims 18m N-S; 8m E-W) defined by wire fences and drystone walls. Three small limestone upright slabs are the only grave-markers. It is known as Tooma after the townland to the SW, the name of which – Tuama – means a mound or burial place. Local folklore records that a church was intended here by St Patrick, but when he departed for Fenagh a local merchant persuaded the builders to relocate the church to Cloone. See this web-page accessed on 18/04/2017 for the Schools Manuscripts: http://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4658433/4655116/4660900
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.