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Church

Termon More, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Termon More, 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
Termon More
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.77212, -8.46383
SMR number
RO026-034----

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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 the crest towards the SE end of a low NW-SE ridge. St Caolainn traced her ancestry to the Ciarraighe of Kerry, a subject people in Connaught who had settled around Castlerea. She gouged out her eyes rather than be admired for them (Anon 1980; Ó Rian 2011, 151-2). This may be the location of St Caolainn’s church and it is connected to the convent at Moor (RO020-043003-) c. 1.2 km to the N by a road (RO020-044----). Only a fragment of the E gable (L 3.2m; T 0.95m; H 4.1m) with the N side of a simple light (H 0.5m) survives together with an adjacent piece of the grass-covered S wall (L 2.9m; H 0.5m). There is no graveyard or enclosure. (Timoney 1990, 15)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 9 April 2018

References

Anon. 1980 Tarmon - Caolainne. In Tarmon National School Centenary, 9-11.

Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.

Timoney, M. A. 1990 The changing landscape around Tarmon, Co. Roscommon. In M. Lavin (ed.) Tarmon National School Centenary 1890-1990, 13-16.

Nearby in the register

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

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