Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cloone (mohill By.), County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloone (mohill By.)
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94720, -7.78425
- SMR number
- LE033-008004-
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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
The first Roman Catholic church of Cloone (LE033-008001-) was built on what was probably the site of the medieval parish church and the names of some of the clergy from the Macheydan or MacKeehan family are known from 1406-1522 (MacNamee 1954, 593). This family were also coarbs to the old monastery, and the parish church of Cloone became one of the churches of the rectory of Muinter Eolais after 1472, having belonged to a separate rectory of Regeles before that (Scully 2019, 133-4). Two churches are depicted on the barony and parish maps of the Down Survey (1656-8), and two churches are specifically mentioned in its terrier or commentary of that map. There are no structural remains of a medieval church but three architectural fragments from windows and doorways with multiple mouldings are displayed on the N wall of the graveyard and are of late medieval date.
See the attached section of the Down Survey map, which is reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 717).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 6 December, 2019
Amended: 10 January 2020
References
MacNamee, Rev. J.J. 1954 History of the diocese of Ardagh. Dublin. Browne and Nolan.
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
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.