Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Saints Island, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Saints Island
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.55473, -7.89428
- SMR number
- LF026-016007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Associated with the Augustinian priory (LF026-016002-). This architectural fragment was discovered and photographed by N.W. English c. 1975 in the nave of the church (pers. comm. H. Murtagh): its present location is unknown. The photo (attached) shows a stone estimated at c. 1m high with what appears to be a relief carving of the mitred head of an ecclesiastic (bishop?) surmounted by other decorative motifs: a date in the 15th century would be in keeping with the style employed. The original provenance of the stone is unknown but the possibility that it might originally have formed part of a cloister arcade is an attractive supposition (pers. comm. C. Manning).
The attached image (LF026-016007-_01.jpg) is uploaded courtesy of Dr Harman Murtagh.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 12 June 2014
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.