Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Church Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Church Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.25350, -8.38673
- SMR number
- SL015-096002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Associated with a church (SL015-096001-) on Church Island.
McParlan (1802, 103-4) records that there was graveyard on Church Island and that ‘in former ages it was the burial place of the parish of Calry’.
Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 30 September 2020
References
McParlan, J. 1802 Statistical survey of the County of Sligo. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy/saint's stoneunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.