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Church

Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clonmacnoise
County
Offaly
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.32600, -7.98541
SMR number
OF005-052----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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. No surface trace visible of the Bishops Chapel (OPW 1906-7, 4). Not marked on the OS 6-inch map but marked on the 25-inch OS 6-inch map as 'Temple Espaic' (site of) along the external face of the S wall of the graveyard to the E of Temple Gauney (OF005-011----). Also depicted on Monahans map of Clonmacnoise as Temple Aspick (Diocese of Ardagh 1886). Ware's map of 1658 shows the church having a W door with high pitched gabled roof (Manning 1994, 16).

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.

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