Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mohill
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ch. on site of Abbey
- Coordinates
- 53.92170, -7.86472
- SMR number
- LE032-068002-
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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
Situated on a slight E-facing slope within Mohill town, with a small N-S stream that flows down to Lough Rinn just to the E. In 1470 it is described as a parish church (Mac Namee 1954, 724) and the head of the rectory of Muinter Eolais with seven churches (Scully 2019, 137). In 1620 Henry Crofton acquired the rectory and the medieval parish church of Mohill which were on the site of St. Manchan’s monastery (LE032-068001-) and 600 acres (MacCuarta 1999, 130), but he added a chapel and a tomb for himself (Logan 1971, 327-8). The foundations of a rectangular building (ext. dims 4.35m N-S by at least 3m E-W), probably the remnants of Crofton’s chapel, were in the graveyard in 1991 (SMR file) just W of the present Church of Ireland church which was built c. 1815 (Lewis 1837, vol. 2, 376), but these remains had been removed by 2019. The graveyard is a sub-rectangular area (dims c. 90m N-S; c. 30-60m E-W) defined by masonry walls, with memorials dating from 1754 to the present.
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.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 6 December 2019, 10 January 2020
References
Scully, S. 2019 Medieval parish churches in Muinter Eolais, south County Leitrim c. 1350-1600. In Kelly, L. and Scott, B. Leitrim: History and Society, 129-51. Dublin, Geography Publications
SMR file - Sites and monuments record files in the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.
Mac Cuarta, B. (ed.) 1999 Leitrim Plantation papers. 1620-1622. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 9, no. 35, 114-39.
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Logan, J. 1971 Tadg O'Roddy and two surveys of Co. Leitrim. Journal of Cumann Seanchas Breifne (Breifne Historical Society) 4 (14), 318-34.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Tomb - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.