Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Drishaghaun East, County Roscommon, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Moundunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.