Home

Who
What
Where
When
Why
Rossinver Church
 

County

Leitrim

Coordinates

N 54° 23' 47.04"   W 008° 07' 05.82"

Nearest town

Garrison

Grid Ref.

G 92319 49762

Map No.

16

Elevation a.s.l. (m)

38

Date of visit

Saturday 27 June 2015

GPS Accuracy (m)

3
Show Google Map              Show Monuments in the area

    
    
    
    
    
   
PREVIOUS      NEXT
Under that thick vegetation is the church.


St. Mogue founded an early church at this site. Other churches were built after the first one, what we see today is the last of them and has been remodeled some times during the years. Its east (90°) window dates from the 13th century.
The nearby graveyard has many interesting grave markers, but two of them are really beautiful.
One slab is next to the entrance gate, 2.40 metres from the gate pillar, aligned with others small slabs. It has a carving of a cross with wide terminal on the east side. Unfortunately a modern burial hides half of the ancient slab and not all the decoration can be seen now.
The other slab is in the centre of the graveyard, it is about 66 centimetres tall, 38 centimetres wide at the ground level and 30 centimetres at the top. On its west face there's a carved cross with concentric circles at its head. The cross has a square central boss and square terminals.
Other grave markers from the first half of the 18th century are all over in the graveyard.


Browse by Monument Type
Browse by County
Browse by Date of Visit
Browse by Map Number

A-Z List

Clickable Counties
Clickable OS Maps Grid

Find a Map

Multimap

The days before GPS

The Stones in the Movies

Glossary
Links
Guestbook
FAQ

What's NEW?


Search


Site view counter: 21770411

Copyright © 1994-2024 Antonio D'Imperio
All the photos, the graphics and the texts on this website are automatically copyrighted to me under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works 1886. Any violation of the copyright will be pursued according to the applicable laws.

info@irishstones.org

Powered by AxeCMS/CustomEngine(V0.25.00 build 999) by Sergio "Axeman" Lorenzetti. (C) 2009-2015

counter