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Shrine

Church Island, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Shrine, Church Island, County Roscommon, 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
Church Island
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
53.99460, -8.26069
SMR number
RO006-006002-

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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

Five meters N of the E end of the extended church (RO006-006001-) is a small saints shrine visible as a masonry structure (ext. dims 4.75m E-W; 2.45m N-S) surviving as foundations with a round-headed window embrasure (Wth 0.3m; H 0.85m) in the W gable. The doorway was at the W end of the S wall. Excavation in the interior (King 2002; 2004) recovered the remains of a complete inhumation and fragments of at least five others. A small stoup and a spud stone were also recovered, but there was no evidence of the roofing. Carbon 14 determinations between AD 1021-1216 to 2 sigma calibration were obtained from the burial. (King 2007)

This is a National Monument in state guardianship: No. 557

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

King, H. 2002 Church Island, Lough Key, medieval tomb shrine. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 294, No. 860. Bray. Wordwell.

King, H. 2007 A medieval ‘Chapel Shrine' on Church Island, Lough Key, Co. Roscommon. In C. Manning (ed.), From ringforts to fortified houses, 353-386. Dublin. Wordwell .

King, H. 2004 Excavation of the High Cross in the medieval market place of Kells. in H. Roche, E. Grogan, J. Bradley, J. Coles and B. Raftery (eds) From megaliths to metal: essays in honour of George Eogan, 233-42. Oxford. Oxbow Books

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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