Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Kilboglashy, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilboglashy
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.21435, -8.51340
- SMR number
- SL020-109010-
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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
Found within the graveyard (SL020-109002-) to the SE of the church (SL020-109001-) during a FÁS graveyard clean up in 1995 and 1996 (M. B. Timoney 2002, 152-3). A trapezoidal limestone slab (L 1.88m; Wth at top 0.41m; Wth at base 0.35m; T 0.14m) of possible 15th/16th-century date, decorated with a pair of facing animals (possibly a lion and a dragon), a sword and foliage (ibid.); this is in the care of Sligo County Council (ibid., 153).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005).
Date of upload: 18 January 2008
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.