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Architectural fragment

Emlagh More, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural fragment, Emlagh More, 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
Emlagh More
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.65465, -8.29867
SMR number
RO039-001001-

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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

A corbel stone (L. 0.7m; max. H 0.48m; T. 0.25) from an unknown location with late medieval foliage decoration and a figure, possibly a sheela-na-gig (RO039-001002-), is kept at a farmhouse. It may be from the church of Emlagh (RO039-070001-), mentioned in a lease of 1577 (Cronin 1980, 111). (Siggins 1990, 47-8)

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Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Cronin, T. 1980 The Elizabethan colony in Co. Roscommon. In Murtagh, H. Irish midland studies: essays in commemoration of N.W. English, 107-20. Old Athlone Society.

Siggins, A. 1990 Heads and tails of stone. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 3, 45-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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