Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonmacnoise
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Temple OKelly (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.32646, -7.98581
- SMR number
- OF005-008001-
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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
National Monument No. 81. Only the partial wall foundations of a small rectangular building (6.75m N-S; 10.75m E-W; wall T 0.8m) of possible 12th-century date (Manning 1994, 26) survives with no architectural features evident. (O' Donovan 1856-7, 447; Cooke 1875, 369; Monahan 1886, 65; Anon 1907, 334; Westropp 1907; 289; Macalister 1910, 25; O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 65-6; Molloy 1950, 6; Harbison 1972, 204)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.