Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Lissygreaghan, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lissygreaghan
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.46617, -8.05428
- SMR number
- RO048-088002-
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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
In the S interior of rath (RO048-088001-). This is a rectangular masonry structure (ext. dims 18.6m WNW-ESE; 6.3m NNE-SSW), of which the N and S walls survive (Wth 0.6m; H 1.4m) with two slit windows on each wall and an entrance towards W end of the N wall. The E and W walls are reduced to the foundations. It is locally regarded as a penal church.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - mound barrowunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.