Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Meeltraun (denis Kelly), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Meeltraun (denis Kelly)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67697, -8.72311
- SMR number
- RO032-050002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At the crest of the SW-facing edge of a low plateau. Conglomerate boulder (dims 3m NW-SE; 1m NE-SW at NW to 2m NE-SW at SE; H 0.8m at NW to 1.5m at SE) with a vertical and straight SW edge (max. H 1.8m) where a modern stone altar (dims 1.5m x 1m; H 0.9m) has been built. A drystone wall (L c. 10m) extends down the slope from the W edge of the boulder. Mass is celebrated at the beginning of September each year, and there is a local tradition of a massacre having occurred here. Children's burial ground (RO032-05001-) is immediately to the N. (Fitzmaurice 1988)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
Fitzmaurice, M. 1988 Ballinlough - Kiltullagh. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 42.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Water mill - horizontal-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.