Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Annaduff, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Annaduff
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.91987, -7.98918
- SMR number
- LE032-054002-
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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 on a gentle W-facing slope overlooking the River Shannon. The site of an early monastery called Enach Dubh and the medieval parish church of Annaduff (LE032-054001-) is within a a rectangular graveyard (dims c. 60m WNW-ESE; c. 40m NNE-SSW) defined by masonry walls, which is itself within an ecclesiastical enclosure (LE032-054005-). The present Church of Ireland church of St. Anne was built c. 1815 (Lewis 1837, 28) on a new site just to the NE of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 8 June 2018
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.