Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial
Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmurray
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.43140, -8.65708
- SMR number
- SL001-001035-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (SL001-001001-) known as the ‘Cashel’.
A small group of flat slabs immediately north of Clocha Breaca [leacht] (SL001-001013-) is identified by local tradition as the grave of one ‘Moylan O’Dalaigh’. His burial on Inishmurray in 1612 is recorded by the Annals of the Four Masters (Wakeman 1893, 9; Heraughty 1982, 20; Mountbatten 1972, 60)
The above description is derived from the results of a survey of the archaeological monuments on Inishmurray undertaken in 1997-1999 and published in:
Jerry O’Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin 2008 Inishmurrary. Monks and pilgrims in an Atlantic landscape. Volume 1: Archaeological Survey and Excavations 1997-2000. Cork. The Collins Press.
Date of upload: 16 January 2018
References
Wakeman, W.F. 1893 Survey of the Antiquarian Remains on the Island of Inishmurray. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (special volume 1893. London.
Heraughty P. 1982 Inishmurray. Ancient monastic island. Dublin. (revised ed.)
Mountbatten of Burma 1972 Inishmurray. Unpublished typescript, private collection.
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Pillar stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.