Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Lissagallan, County Roscommon, Ireland
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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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
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.