Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Round tower
Mocmoyne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mocmoyne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- RO005-020003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Reference by O'Donovan c. 1837 (O'Flanagan 1931 vol. 1, 100; Herity 2010, 64) that a land surveyor named Connolly had seen the foundations of a round tower at the site of Assylin church (MO005-020001-). It is regarded as very dubious (Barrow 1979, 180).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Lennox Barrow, G. 1979 The round towers of Ireland: a study and gazetteer. Dublin. The Academy Press.
Herity, M. (ed.) 2010 Ordnance Survey Letters, Roscommon. Dublin, Fourmasters Press