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Structure

Inishmurray, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Structure, 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
54.43082, -8.65547
SMR number
SL001-002009-

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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 against E wall of the enclosure (SL001-002002-) which surrounds Templenaman church (SL001-002001-) and graveyard (SL001-002007-).
Close by the south-east angle of the church (SL001-002001-), a massive stone bench of drystone rubble abuts the inner face of the cemetery enclosure on the east side. This is up to 6 m long (north/south) by 2 m wide and is over 1 m high. The surface is flattish, slightly domed, and formed by a litter of small rubble.
No authority comments on the use or antiquity of this feature. It may have been a place on which coffins rested – after the church became ruinous – during funerary ceremonies within the women’s cemetery. Alternatively, Dr Patrick Heraughty (pers. comm.) attributed this to the OPW who allegedly removed a large stone buttress from the south face of the church in the 1970s and piled up the stone from that in this large, neat cairn.
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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