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Erris, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Erris, 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
Erris
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Templenadriney
Latest-edition OS map
Templenadriney (Site of)
Coordinates
53.97356, -8.27200
SMR number
RO006-083001-

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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

On a terrace of rock-outcrop, and probably an early ecclesiastical site. Visible in 1995 as a D-shaped grass-covered ecclesiastical enclosure (RO006-083004-) (dims 27.5m E-W; 22.5m N-S) defined by the edge of the outcrop N-E (max. H 3m) and an earthen bank (Wth 4m; H 0.3-0.7m) elsewhere. The foundations of a mortared stone wall, presumably of a church, and burials (RO006-083002-) were found in the course of an excavation in 1989 for the Boyle by-pass (O'Riordain 1990a, 45). A further 17 inhumations were recovered S of the ecclesiastical enclosure, when it was determined that the burials extended further W, but not E under the by-pass road (Channing 1994c). Souterrain (RO006-083005-) is at the W side of the ecclesiastical enclosure and the holy well (RO006-083003-) is just to the N. It is within the field system (RO006-083006-), and cashel (RO006-083007-) is c. 200m to the E. (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1,108; D'alton 1845, 72-5)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.

Ó Ríordáin, B. 1990b 'Templenadriney', Erris Church (site of); burial ground; habitation. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1989: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 45, No. 81. Bray. Wordwell.

Channing, J. 1994c 'Templedriney Church', Erris Church and enclosure. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1993: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 70, No. 195. Bray. Wordwell.

D'Alton, J. 1845 The history of Ireland: from the earliest period to the year 1245. 2 vol. Dublin, Author.

Nearby in the register

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

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