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College

Drumcliff South, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of College, Drumcliff South, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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