Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battlefield
Churchquarter,granard,grassyard,moatfield,rathcronan,teemore,granardkill, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Churchquarter,granard,grassyard,moatfield,rathcronan,teemore,granardkill
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77663, -7.49783
- SMR number
- LF010-138----
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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 Battle of Granard took place on 5th September, 1798, the same day that the French Army was attacked at Collooney, Co. Sligo. The battlefield site is located in and around the town of Granard, Co. Longford. The town is well established on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey maps, with churches, schools, a police barracks, post office and a dispensary.
Nearby in the register
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.