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Church

Cloonkeen (Castlereagh By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Cloonkeen, 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
Cloonkeen (Castlereagh By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Templekillian (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.75275, -8.54582
SMR number
RO026-016001-

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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)
  • 1857 · 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 shelf at the bottom of a gentle SW-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge and c. 50m from a NW-SE stream. This is a rectangular structure (int. dims c. 11.5m E-W; 6.4m N-S) with ivy-covered walls (T 0.9m) obscured by rubble, but the E wall is missing. The N wall (H 0.5m), S wall (max. H 1.75m at W) and W wall (H 2.2m) are featureless. There is no enclosure, but there are a few plain grave markers of childrens' graves (RO026-016002-) in the interior. Toberwingan (RO026-016003-), a dry oval well (dims 2m x 1.5m; D 0.6m) enclosed by a drystone wall is c. 50m SW of the church. There was a whitethorn rag tree (RO026-016004-) at the well (Gannon 1972), and while the tree is present there are no offernings. Rath (RO026-015----) is c. 200m to the NNW.

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 Unpublished typed index cards prepared for Roscommon County Council.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

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

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