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Graveyard

Tumna, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Tumna, 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
Tumna
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.95737, -8.12337
SMR number
RO007-087002-

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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

Situated at the bottom of the N-facing slope of a drumlin c. 80m from the S bank of the Boyle River linking Lough Eidin to the River Shannon c. 600m to the E. The graveyard (dims 35m E-W; 22.5m N-S) is defined by a masonry wall and contains a church (RO007-084001-) at W, a smaller church or oratory to the S (RO007-084005-), which may be post-medieval, and a saints grave or shrine (RO007-084004-). Magnetic gradiometry and earth resistance surveys concentrating within the ecclesiastical enclosure but extending outside it to the S recorded a subrectangular area enclosing the graveyard but defined by stony features to the W and N, which might indicate its original extent (dims c. 40m NE-SW; c. 40m NW-SE). (Curran 2015)

See the attached view of the graveyard taken from the SE.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 8 June 2018

References

Curran, S. 2015 Geophysical survey report: Tumna, Co. Roscommon. RMP: RO007-087001- / 002- / 003- / 004- / 005-; Licence No.: 15R0081. Unpublished report, Author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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