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Memorial stone

Drishaghaun East, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Memorial stone, Drishaghaun East, 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
Drishaghaun East
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Stone Cross
Latest-edition OS map
Cross
Coordinates
53.76587, -8.33826
SMR number
RO027-025001-

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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

Located on a S-facing slope and at the NE side of a NW-SE laneway. A limestone slab (dims 0.55m x 0.15m; H 0.85m) with an inscription commemorating Fr. Augustine Plunkett and the date 1723 (Gormley 1989, 79-81; Mannion 1998, 143) is placed on an earthen mound (RO027-025002-) (dims 4.7m E-W; 3m N-S; H 0.8m) or fragment of an earthen bank with a stone facing. Fr. Plunkett was born c. 1665-70 at the Plunkett house in Castleplunket (RO027-028001-) c. 1km to the S. The memorial was conserved in AD 2000 when a protective stone wall was added (Tiernan 2016). The inscription reads (ibid.): Pray for ye soul of Fr. / Augustine Plunkett (O) / SA. He caused ye croz / to be made in memory / of himself and his / friends Anno Dom 1723 / Fryer of Bellahaunes.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 10 August 2017

References

Mannion, L. 1998 The restoration of Rathmoyle ancient cemetery. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 7, 143-5.

Tiernan, M. 2016 Father Plunkett's Monument (RO027-025----). Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, vol. 13, 67.

Gormley, M. (compiler) 1989 Tulsk parish in historic Maigh Aí. Aspects of its history and folklore. Author

Nearby in the register

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

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