Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Carroweighter, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carroweighter
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.67361, -8.33979
- SMR number
- RO034-080002-
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
Towards the bottom of the S-facing slope at the SE end of a broad NW-SE ridge. A circular graveyard (diam. c. 70m, 1929 OS 6-inch map) surrounded the church of Oran (RO034-080001-) and the round tower (RO034-080003-), but the graveyard has been expanded W to a N-S section of the N 60 road and N to a field bank (max. dims c. 120m N-S; c. 120m E-W). The expanded graveyard has destroyed earthwork features (RO034-080005-) in this area marked on the 1929 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and described by O'Donovan c. 1837 as house foundations (O’Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 61). Earthwork (RO034-080014-) is inside the SE angle of the original graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1931 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Roscommon collected during the progress of the
Ordnance Survey in 1837. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.