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Religious house - Knights Templars

Templehouse Demesne, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Religious house - Knights Templars, Templehouse Demesne, 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
Templehouse Demesne
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.11186, -8.58509
SMR number
SL033-026007-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 330-31), there was a Knights Templers foundation at Templehouse. The evidence indicates that Temple House Castle (SL033-026001-) and its lands formed a preceptory and manor belonging to the Knights Templar from some time before 1271 to the order’s suppression in 1312 (O’Conor and Nassens 2016, 127).There is a complex of ruinded monuments at this location (see SL033-026001-; SL033-026002-; SL033-026003-; SL033-026004-) including the base of an early medieval high cross (SL033-026005-) lying on the ground within the hall-house (SL033-026001-). (Ó Muraíle 2002, 240 n. 24; Egan et al. 2005, no. 2671)

Revised by: Paul Walsh

Revised date of upload: 14 December 2015

References

Ó Muraíle, N. 2002 Downing's description of county Sligo, c. 1684. In M.A. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo: first essays for Sligo Field Club, 231-42. Sligo Field Club.

Egan, U., Byrne, E., Sleeman, M. 2005 Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo, Vol. 1: South Sligo. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

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

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