Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Derrane, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Derrane
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Burying Ground
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.66175, -8.14941
- SMR number
- RO040-004002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
The rectangular graveyard (dims 53m NWE-SE; 40m NE-SW) of Derrane Abbey (RO040-0004001-) defined by masonry walls is now extended to the SE (dims c. 55m NW-SE; c. 55m NE-SW). The older part has the head of a cross (RO040-040004-) and about ten architectural fragments (RO036-039004-). A Roman Catholic church is now outside the old graveyard at NW on the probable site of the abbey church. A fragment of a wall (L 11.7m NE-SW; T 0.9-1m; H 0.6-0.8m) with a taller section (H 2.3m) at its SW end survives inside the NW wall of the graveyard and might be the original wall of the abbey graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian, of Arrouaise nunsunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.