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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Toomour, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Toomour, 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
Toomour
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.03973, -8.43179
SMR number
SL040-140007-

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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)
  • 1811 · 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

A bishop of 'Tuaim-fobhair' [Toomour] was ordained by St Kevin of Glendalough in the 6th century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 407). The outline of the N arc of this enclosure is visible on the OSI 1995 aerial photograph and it is possible that its footprint is represeneted by the field boundaries to the S of the road. Within the possible enclosure are the graveyard (SL040-140004-) and the medieval parish church of Toomour (SL040-140001-), a leacht cuimhne (SL040-140003-), on top of which is a set of holy stones (SL040-140006-), and three cross inscribed stones (SL040-140005-; SL040-140009-; SL040-040010-).

Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 June 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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