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Church

Lissagallan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Lissagallan, 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
Lissagallan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (Site of)
Coordinates
53.66198, -8.24438
SMR number
RO035-074001-

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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

Marked as a church ruin on Taylor and Skinners map of 1783 (Andrews 1969, 238), and it is known locally as Ardkieran. This was a chapel-of-ease to Fuerty parish church (RO039-063001-), and it is situated on a broad ridge at the N extremity of the parish. There are slight traces of a rectangular structure (int. dims 5.6m E-W; 3.2m N-S) defined by scarps at the centre of a wedge-shaped graveyard (RO035-074002-) (dims 28m E-W at S to 70m E-W at N; c. 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls. Rath (RO035-072----) and house (RO035-073----) are c. 150m and c. 50m to the N respectively, and rath (RO039-004----) is c. 90m to the SW.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Andrews, J.H. (ed.) 1969 Maps of the roads of Ireland. Shannon. Irish University Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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