Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Toomour, County Sligo, Ireland
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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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 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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Leachtunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.