Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Cloonard, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonard
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.80662, -8.51485
- SMR number
- RO020-019001-
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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
Listed as Clonard in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (CDI vol. 5, 224) and situated towards the top of the S-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Traditionally the burial place of the Mac Dermot Gall of Airtech (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 87; Mac Dermot 1996, 299).
The grass-covered foundations of part of the S (L 5.m) and E (L 2.1m) walls of a church are at the centre of a rectangular graveyard (RO020-019002-) (dims. 32m E-W; 28m N-S) which is defined by a masonry wall and which contains 19th and 20th century headstones. A plain latin cross (RO020-0190004-) (H 0.5m; Wth 0.43m) of granite (Wth of shaft 0.22m; T 0.03m) and a T-shaped cross (RO020-019005-) (H 0.8m; Wth 0.83m) of shale (Wth of shaft 0.28m; T 0.05m) are in the graveyard. The site of Cloonard Abbey (RO020-019003-), of which is little is known other than its designation on the 1837 and 1914 eds. of the OS 6-inch map and of which nothing is visible, is immediately adjacent to the W.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).
Mac Dermot, D. 1996 Mac Dermot of Moylurg: the story of a Connacht family. Manorhamilton. Drumlin.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.