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Wall monument

Ballypheasan, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Wall monument, Ballypheasan, 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
Ballypheasan
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.62475, -8.19154
SMR number
RO039-055003-

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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

An effigy (RO039-055004-), said to be that of Felimid O'Conor and made c. 1290-1300, is in the niche of a wall monument with a re-built arch in the N chancel wall of the Dominical friary (RO039-055001-). The effigy is resting on the side-panels of a 15th century tomb with eight warriors (O'Gorman 1866; Taylor 1892-4a; Fitzgerald 1892-4; 1900; Hunt 1974, No. 213). A fragment of another tomb (RO039-055006-) is now missing.

See the attached view of the 15th century tomb surround

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 December 2011

References

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1900 The effigy of King Felim O'Conor in Roscommon Abbey, and the altar-tomb it rests on. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 364-7.

Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.

O'Gorman, T. 1866 Some remarks on O'Connor's tomb at Roscommon. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 8, 546-54.

Taylor, Rev. J. Wallace 1892-4a King Felim O'Connor's tomb. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. vol. 2, 194-8.

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1892-94 Roscommon Abbey. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 2,353-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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