Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Saints Island, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saints Island
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55483, -7.89362
- SMR number
- LF026-016004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Just inside the NE angle of the graveyard (LF026-016003-). The Augustinian priory (LF026-016002-) lies c. 30m to the SW. This small building (int. dims. 7.1m E-W; 3.3m N-S; wall T 0.7m) is constructed of random rubble and limestone. There are fragmentary remains of a destroyed window in the centre of the E gable, which is covered in ivy. While the exact nature and date of this structure are unknown, the possibility that it may have served some ecclesiastical function cannot be ruled out; it was possibly a small church. (ITA Survey 1944)
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan, Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.