Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
College
Drumcliff South, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcliff South
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of College
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.32629, -8.49354
- SMR number
- SL008-084006-
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 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within Drumcliff graveyard (SL008-084002-).
There is no visible trace at ground level of this college. It is indicated on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as ‘Site of College’, and is not shown on later map editions. The source of this record is a reference in the 1836 OS Letters: 'There is a tradition that an old church (SL008-084001-) stood where the Protestant church at Drumcliff now stands, which was called Teampull Buidhe. It is also said there was a college in it, which was much frequented by foreigners . . .' ((O'Flanagan 1933, 83 31-2).
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 3 November 2020
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1933 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Sligo collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1836. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.