Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Inishmore Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmore Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Monastery (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 54.06698, -8.32564
- SMR number
- SL040-050001-
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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
In pasture, on the S shore of Inishmore Island in Lough Arrow, within a possible graveyard (SL040-050002-). The ruins of a rectangular structure (int. 8.5m NW-SE; 5m SW-NE) are situated in an area covered by scrub overgrowth. Only fragments of wall-facing survive (uncoursed limestone; T 0.6m) and most of the walling is of loose drystone construction. No feature of this is consistent with that of a church though it appears to be the structure named 'Monastery (in Ruins)' on the 1914 OS 6-inch map. There is no known record of a monastic foundation here (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 365).
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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - motte and baileyunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.