Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Monumental structure
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
- 53.98914, -8.25478
- SMR number
- RO006-036004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On Trinity Island. There are two sets of tie-stones on the outer face of the W end of the S nave wall, but excavation shows that no building was constructed here. Between these tie-stones is a C-shaped masonry structure (Wth 2.7m; D 1.6m; H 2.4m) which has been identifed as a memorial to Sir Conyers Clifford, Governor of Connacht, who was buried here after the Battle of the Curlew Mountains (RO006-002----) in 1599 (Clyne 2005, 60-1).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Clyne, M. 2005 Archaeological excavations at Holy Trinity Abbey, Lough Key, Co. Roscommon. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 105C (2), 23-98.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 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.