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Graveyard

Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Inishmurray, County Sligo, 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
Inishmurray
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.43075, -8.65544
SMR number
SL001-002007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located in an enclosure (SL001-002002-) on the SE shoreline of Inishmurray island, and 85m SE of an early medieval ecclesiastical enclosure (SL001-001001-). This graveyard is traditionally known as ‘The Women’s Cemetery’, and is associated with Templenaman, The women’s church (SL001-002001-). There is a leacht (SL001-003001-) within the S end of the graveyard.
Within the enclosure (SL001-002002-) grave markers occur throughout the area south of the women’s church (SL001-002001-), but particularly in the south and east of the enclosure. These take various forms, including several modern plinthed crosses, at least three cross slabs or cross-inscribed pillars (SL001-002008-; SL001-002012- & SL001-002013-), and an early inscribed memorial stone (SL001-002005-); but the commonest form is the unmarked, rough, sandstone slab erected to form a low headstone. There are at least 60 of these, including four within the church. They generally face east/west and are roughly aligned in rows (though this is less pronounced than in the Men’s Cemetery (SL001-001029-), at the Cashel (SL001-001001-)). There is a notable concentration of these towards the southern end of the cemetery and especially around the Crossatemple leacht (SL001-003001-).
This is a National Monument (no. 117) in state ownership.

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

Nearby in the register

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

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