Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture
Trinity Island, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Trinity Island
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.98927, -8.25445
- SMR number
- RO006-036002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The Praemonstratensian abbey of the Holy Trinity (RO006-036001-) was burned in 1466 when an image of the Trinity was destroyed (Roe 1979, 145). A sculpted image of the Madona has been lost since the 19th century from the window over the aumbry in the N chancel wall, (MacLeod 1945, 174-5).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
MacLeod, C. 1945 Medieval wooden figure sculpture in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 75, 167-82.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Monumental structureunder 1 mi
- Slipwayunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.