Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Hermit Island, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Hermit Island
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hermits Cell
- Coordinates
- 54.00387, -8.24825
- SMR number
- RO006-007----
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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)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
An early ecclesiastical site but with no historical references. Situated at the centre of the wooded Hermit Island (dims c. 100m N-S; c. 70m E-W) which is at the centre of Lough Key. The walls of a nave (int. dims 5.55m E-W; 3.4m N-S) of cyclopian masonry (max. H 2m at the W end of the S wall) with a destroyed entrance at the W and an external plinth, together with the foundations of a chancel (int. dims 2.4m N-S; c. 4m E-W) survive with no architectural features. There is no evidence of an enclosure or of burial.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Concentric enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.