Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Coffin-resting stone
Baslick, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baslick
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.78564, -8.42904
- SMR number
- RO021-083004-
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 a bluff overlooking a N-S stream to the E and S. The single flat headstone (dims 2.2m x 1.1m; T 0.2m) of a Michael Balfe dated 1777 where coffins were traditionally laid is just outside the graveyard (RO021-083002-) beside the gate at W. (Gormley 1989a, 107)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Gormley, M. 1989a Baslick. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 107-9.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ogham stoneunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.