Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Arm, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Arm
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Oldtown Chapel
- Latest-edition OS map
- Oldtown Chapel (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 53.76284, -8.50995
- SMR number
- RO026-037001-
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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 gentle SW-facing slope. Described in gothic lettering as Oldtown Chapel on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. It is regarded as a church which may have been a Roman Catholic chapel before a cruciform church in Castlerea was built in 1798 in what is now St. Joseph's cemetery (Hurley 1943, vol. 1, 5; Beirne 2000, 225-6). It is not visible at ground level, and there is no trace of the well Tobershanbally (RO026-037002-) or of a settlement (RO026-037003-) implied in the name Oldtown. Archaeological testing (07E0153) just to the SE produced no related material other than traces of an earthen bank that may have surrounded the church but there were no burials (Casey 2007).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 30th June 2011
References
Casey, M. 2007 Archaeological investigations at Arm, Castlerea, Roscommon. Unpublished report, National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. Licence no. 07E0153.
Beirne, Rev. F. 2000 The Diocese of Elphin. People, places and pilgrimage. Blackrock. The Columba Press.
Hurley, Rev. T. 1943 St Patrick and the parish of Kilkeevin, vol. 1. Dublin. Dollard.
Nearby in the register
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Quarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.