Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Saints Island, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saints Island
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55475, -7.89397
- SMR number
- LF026-016001-
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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
In pasture on a low-lying promontory in Lough Ree and connected to the mainland by a causeway (1.1km) across marshy ground. The size and subcircular shape (79m NW-SE; 57m NE-SW) of the graveyard (LF026-016003-), which is defined by a stone wall, suggest that it may have been built on the line of an early ecclesiastical enclosure. The Augustinian Priory of All Saints (LF026-016002-) lies in the W half of the interior and in the NE corner there is a possible church (LF026-016004-).
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.