Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inishmore Island, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishmore Island
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 54.06699, -8.32567
- SMR number
- SL040-050002-
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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
A scarped edge (H 1.2m; Wth 3.2m) extends to the NW from the shoreline for c. 20m before curving around to the NE and continuing for at least another 20m. Immediately to the E of the scarp is a roughly L-shaped area (Wth c. 12m) of uneven ground covered by scrub overgrowth; this contains the ruins of a possible church (SL040-050001-). There are no grave-markers in this area nor is there any other feature characteristic of a graveyard. 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
- Churchunder 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.