Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - unclassified
Oakport Demesne, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oakport Demesne
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltidean Church and Burial Ground (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.98341, -8.19555
- SMR number
- RO006-059003-
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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
On the gentle NE-facing slope of a rise. There is no visible surface evidence of a church or of burial at church (RO006-059001-), but there is a local tradition that it was a nunnery (Gannon 1972).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gannon, A. 1972 Archaeological survey of Roscommon. Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.