Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Cloonburren, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloonburren
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Cloonburren Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Cloonburren Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.31390, -8.05176
- SMR number
- RO056-007001-
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
On the summit of an esker within view of Clonmacnoise monastery, Co. Offaly (OF005-004----), c. 4.5km to the ENE. The conserved remains of a rectangular church (RO056-007002-) are within a subrectangular graveyard (dims c. 70m NE-SW; c. 60m NW-SE) defined by drystone walls. An almost complete cross-slab (RO056-007003-) and fragments of nine others are displayed in the graveyard, together with the cross-base (RO056-007005-), a fragment of a cross (RO056-007004-), a fragment of a wayside cross (RO056-007006-), and architectural fragments (RO056-007008-).
See the attached view taken from the SW.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Religious house nunnery - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.