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Church

Fuerty, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Fuerty, 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
Fuerty
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.61023, -8.26886
SMR number
RO039-063001-

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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

This is an early ecclesiastical site attributed to St Patrick, whose first deacon was Justus (Kelly 1861-4), and the parish church of Fuerty listed as Fidard in the ecclesiastical taxation of Elphin in 1306 (Cal. doc. Ire. vol. 5, 224). It is situated on a slight knoll, and the ruins of a Church of Ireland church stand within a small graveyard (RO039-063002-) (dims 53m E-W; 40m N-S) defined by masonry walls, although the graveyard has been extended to the E (dims. 100m E-W; 40m N-S). Two sandstone cross-slabs (RO039-063003-; RO039-063004-) are displayed on the tower of the roofless church, and another lies in the graveyard (Wakeman 1890-1, 357-8; Crawford 1913; 160; FitzGerald 1910-12b; Macalister 1945, vol. 2, 14, 15; Herity et al. 1997, 117-8).
One slab (RO039-063003-) (dims 0.95m x 0.7m) has an incised two-lined ringed cross, a fish and the inscription 'or ar anmain aidacain' - pray for the soul of Aidacain. The other slab (RO039-063004-) (dims 0.9m x 0.7m) has an incised five-line cross with expanded terminals and the inscription 'or ar mór'. Fragments of a fourth cross-slab (RO039-063005-) (dims 0.3m x 0.15m) with a swastika motif were acquired by NMI in 1984 (Siggins 1988, 55-6), and a grave-marker (RO039-063009-) in the graveyard has a simple incised Maltese cross (Corlett 1998, 137). Archaeological testing (05E1414) immediately S of the graveyard failed to produce any related archaeological material (Casey 2009).

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 August 2010

References

Siggins, A. 1988 Some early Christian slabs from Fuerty and Clontuskert. Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 2, 55-9.

Herity, M., Kelly, D. and Mattenberger, U. 1997 List of Early Christian cross-slabs in seven north-western counties. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 127, 89-124.

Kelly, D.H. 1861-4 Account of inscribed stones at Fuerty, county of Roscommon. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 8C, 455-8.

Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Corlett, C. 1998 Three new cross-slabs and a Romanesque lintel from county Roscommon. Journal of the Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society 7, 137-8.

Crawford, H.S. 1907 A descriptive list of early Irish crosses. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 37, 187-239; 43, 151-69, 261-65, 326-34.

Cal. doc. Ire. - Calendar of documents relating to Ireland 1171-1307, ed. H.S. Sweetman (5 vols., London, 1875-86).

Casey, M. 2009 Fuerty: no archaeological significance. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 458, No. 1728. Dublin. Wordwell.

Wakeman, W. F. 1890-1 On the early forms of inscribed Christian crosses found in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 21, 350-8.

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1910-12 Fuerty churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 8, 623-5

Nearby in the register

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

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