# Land parcel 759571, Ireland

Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address.

- Parcel number at Tailte Éireann (SP_ID): 759571
- Area: 219 m², as Tailte Éireann measures it
- Buildings (Tailte Éireann): no building touches it
- Townland: none: the statutory boundaries draw no townland here, as in the centres of Dublin, Cork and Galway

## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan)

- S3 CF – community facilities (Community facilities): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/
- G1 OS – open space (Open space, park): Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030, Sligo. The zoning objective in the plan: https://www.sligococo.ie/cdp/

## Planning applications on this parcel (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage)

No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

- Special Area of Conservation: Lough Gill SAC, site code 001976, https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/001976
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Lough Gill, site code 001976

## Recorded monuments around it, by their zones of notification (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service)

This parcel is in the zone of notification of 40 recorded monuments.

- SL014-065: Historic town, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-065003: Hospital, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065003-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-065006: Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castle, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065006-. The following details have been extracted from the introductory essay in Gallagher and Legg (2012) to which the reader is referred for further information: ‘There is no evidence of substantial habitation [at Sligo], however, until the 1240s when the AngloNorman baron Maurice Fitzgerald, a member of the Kildare Geraldines, constructed a castle in order to control the roads, the bridge and access from the sea. Fitzgerald had been granted large tracts of land in upper Connacht after 1235 and his prime focus was to secure the crossing over the Garvoge and to encourage economic development on his manor of Sligo. It is possible that he replaced the existing wooden bridge with a stone one. Sligo Castle immediately overlooked and secured the bridge, and the two were intimately connected. Fitzgerald used it as a base from which to attack the territory of the O’Donnells to the north in Tír Conaill.’ ‘The repeated destruction and reconstruction of Sligo Castle is symptomatic of the fact that its possession was contested between various Gaelic and Anglo-Norman families. Following a period of dispute between two AngloNorman families, the castle was handed over to Richard de Burgo; he also obtained the manor of Sligo in 1299 as part of a settlement with the Fitzgeralds, who then left Sligo for good. The castle was substantially rebuilt by de Burgo, then lord of Connacht, and may have incorporated remnants of the earlier one built by Maurice Fitzgerald. The location of successive castles at Sligo was a small rise overlooking the harbour, bridge and town in what is now Quay Street, on the site of the nineteenth-century Town Hall.’ ‘By the end of the fourteenth century the O’Connors emerged as keepers of Sligo Castle.’ ‘When Sligo was visited by Sir Henry Sidney, lord deputy of Ireland, in 1566 he noted that the castle was ‘fair and the greatest of any that we have seen in an Irishman’s possession’.’ ‘By 1584 Sir Richard Bingham, in his capacity of chief commissioner of Connacht and Thomond, had reduced the power of the O’Connors Sligo and had fortified the castle with crown forces. A map from 1587 clearly shows a castle with four towers defending the river at Sligo. The importance of the crown’s possession of the castle was re-emphasised in 1588 when the Spanish Armada was blown north from the English Channel and came down the north-west coast of Ireland. William Taaffe was made sheriff of Co. Sligo and took charge of the castle that same year. Bingham reported to the lord deputy that, before leaving, O’Donnell had ‘much broken’ Sligo Castle and the priory. At the end of the year, it was decided that the castle should be restored by the former rebels, ‘nine principal gentlemen of Galway and Roscommon’, and in 1589 it was remitted to Donough O’Connor. Sligo was considered the key to Connacht and, by placing a strong garrison there, it was believed that the crown might pacify Connacht and prevent O’Donnell from returning to the province. A contemporary map of the Sligo area from 1589 shows a roughly sketched castellated structure with two towers, which may be an illustration of the old castle. In June 1595 a cousin of Bingham’s was murdered in the castle and a rebel, Ulick Burke, the first earl of Clanricard, handed it over to O’Donnell. Following Bingham’s attempt to retake the castle, O’Donnell demolished it ‘so that he did not leave a stone of it on a stone, for fear the English might take it without his knowledge’. In 1596, however, Donough O’Connor was given custody of the castle and he endeavoured to rebuild it, although he had meagre resources. Three years later John Baxter issued a declaration concerning the rebuilding of Sligo Castle. In all likelihood the castle was in an extremely ruinous state and untenable. It was described as being ‘in ruins’ and the town burnt in 1602 and there is no sign of it on Baxter’s map of c. 1600.’ ‘In the late 1650s there were also large numbers of soldiers garrisoned in the town and another quadrilateral fort, known later as the Stone Fort, was built on the site of the old de Burgo castle to accommodate them.' (see SL014-065007-). (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 1-3, 14). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065007: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065007-. Built on the site of the existing de Burgo caslte (SL014-065006-) this bastioned fort was constructed in the late 1650s to house a garrison. It is referred to as the ‘new fort’ in 1659 and again in 1663, although it appears that it was not then properly finished since the bastions were left hollow. When completed, the Stone Fort comprised high stone curtain walls, flanked by four corner bastions. Phillips’s view of c. 1685 shows a substantial castellated structure with the four bastions rising above the adjoining curtain walls. Repaired at the time of the Williamite War in 1689 part of the site was leased to the Crown for use as a barracks in 1700. It was damaged by storm in 1757 and described as the ‘Old fort leased’ in 1781. Part of it was converted to stores in 1800 and the site was purchased by the corporation in 1861. It was partly demolished when Quay Street was widened in 1861 and a Town Hall was constructed on the site in 1865. Remains this fort were uncovered in the course of excavations undertaken on the site in 2002 (licence number 02E0651; Halpin 2002). (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 3, 14). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065008: Religious house - Dominican friars, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065008-. Located on the S bank of the River Garavogue, c. 500m from the river estuary, in Sligo Town, in the townland of Abbeyquarter North. Sligo Dominican friary is a National Monument in State ownership (no. 189). It was established in 1252 by Maurice Fitz Gerald, 2nd Lord Offaly, for the Dominican Friars, and dedicated to the Holy Cross. The Annals of Loch Cé record for the year 1253: ‘A monastery was erected and a cemetery consecrated for the Friars Preachers at Sligech’ (Hennessy 1871, 403). Having taken part in the conquest of Connacht in 1235, Fitz Gerald built a castle (SL014-065006-) in 1245 and established the settlement that would become the town of Sligo. Like most mendicant foundations, the Sligo friars benefitted from both Anglo-Norman and Gaelic Irish patronage. The Annals of the Four Masters record that the friary was destroyed in 1414, following a fire started by a candle, but was rebuilt two years later in 1416 ‘by Friar Brian, son of Dermot MacDonough’ (O’Donovan 1856, 817 & 825). An inducement to fund the rebuild was offered by Pope John XXIII in a papal bull issued in 1415, granting an indulgence to penitents who ‘on the feast of the Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin, and on that of St. Patrick the Confessor, visit the church and give alms for the repair of it and the house of the Friars Preachers of Sligo (Scligie)...whose said church and house, in which were lately twenty friars, have been recently burned.’ (Cal. Papal Letters, vol. 6, 484). Irish lords buried in the friary include Tigernan, son of Ualgarc Ua Ruairc, king of Breifni, in 1418 (MacCarthy 1895, 75), and Brian MacDonough, Lord of Tirrerrill, in 1454 (Coleman 1902, 98). After the Dissolution of monasteries, the O’Conor Sligo, patrons of the friars, pleaded with Queen Elizabeth for the friary to be preserved, and in 1568 she agreed, as she was assured that the friars had become secular priests. An inquisition in 1585 lists among the possessions of the friary, a fishing weir and a quarter of land called the Fryer quarter (Coleman 1902, 98), the boundaries of which survive in the townlands of Abbeyquarter North and Abbeyquarter South, to the S and E of the friary. In 1595 Richard Bingham, Governor of Connacht, took up quarters in the friary, and stripped out its timber fittings to construct siege engines with which to attack Sligo castle, then held by Red Hugh O’Donnell’s men. James I granted the friary and its lands to Wm. Taaffe, who had been appointed sheriff of Co. Sligo in 1588. A single friar remained at this stage, but in 1608 Father Daniel O’Crean arrived from Spain to establish a new Dominican community in Sligo; by 1622 there were ten friars, and in 1627 a Provincial Chapter was held. However, in the course of the war of 1641, Colonel Sir Frederick Hamilton marched on Sligo, burned the friary and killed the friars. The Dominican community later reformed, and there were five friars in Sligo in 1703 (Coleman 1902, 99-100). In 1865 a new Dominican convent was completed, situated on Dominick Street, just a short walk from the remains of the medieval friary. The remains of the friary include a nave and chancel church, with central tower, part of the south lateral aisle and the transept or chapel; and to N of the church, the cloister, the E range, and part of the N range. The chancel and nave retains some of their original 13th-century character, but most of the other standing buildings and structures, such as the tower, S aisle and chapel, the cloister, and the domestic ranges, are 15th century or later in date, many probably dating to the phase of reconstruction that followed the 1414 fire. The abbey is noteworthy for the rare survival of the 15th-century sculpted high altar, the rood screen and the reader’s desk; also for its very fine cloister, several striking decorative and figurative carvings that enliven the grey stones of the buildings, as well as a number of fine 16th- and 17th-century funerary monuments. The buildings are constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble masonry, apart from the nave arcade and tower pillars, which are of dressed limestone blocks. In the church, the W wall and W end of the N wall of the nave (int. c. 17m E−W; 6.55 N−S) are gone. The N wall of the nave retains three 13th-century, double pointed lancets, the middle one partly blocked by the 1506 O’Crean canopy tomb (SL014-065027-). Traces of plaster survive towards the W end of the N wall. Amongst the graveslabs on display in the nave, four (SL014-065035-; SL014-065036-; SL014-065037-; SL014-065038-) appear to be late medieval in date. The nave is separated from the S aisle by an arcade of three pointed arches, resting on two large, elongated octagonal pillars with moulded bases and capitals and two engaged semi-octagonal pillars. The arcade is a 15th-century insertion in the 13th-century S wall of the nave, which is clearly marked by a string course framing the arcade. The original S and W wall of the aisle are gone and have been replaced by modern walls. At the E end of the aisle is a round-headed archway with an internal rib, giving access into the S chapel (int. c. 9.50m N–S and c. 6m E–W). The E wall of the chapel survives, but little remains of the S and W walls. In the E wall of the chapel, there is an arched altar recess towards the N end of the wall, and remnants of another to the S, but the windows they contained are gone. There is a small piscina niche in the SW corner of the N altar recess, and an aumbry adjacent to S. At the S end of the E wall there are remnants of a window with wide splay, and another aumbry. A grave slab (SL014-065039-), on display on the N wall of the chapel, is probably late medieval date. At the E end of the nave is a rood screen structure (int.: 5.8m N–S; 1.47m E–W), which post-dates the tower. This is a rare survival. The structure originally consisted of two arcades of three pointed arches, supporting a rib-vault of three bays and a gallery above. It would have been fitted with screens to hide the chancel from view, opened only at certain moments of the liturgy, such as during the Elevation of the Host. The rood, a large representation of the crucifixion, would have been mounted above the central screen, facing towards the nave. The engaged columns at the four corners of the structure survive, and the W arcade has been restored, with two octagonal columns featuring moulded bases and capitals. In the N and S walls are arched recesses, which may have served as secondary altars. The S recess has an aumbry in its internal W wall. Immediately to E of the rood screen is the central bell tower, supported at W and E by tall, broad pointed arches. The internal ribs on the E side have simple chamfered conical stops, but on the W side they terminate in elaborately sculpted corbels in the form of a man’s head to S and woman’s head to the N, both in extravagant 15th-century headdress, the man also sporting a luxuriant moustache. Above the male head an angel bears an escutcheon; above the female head an escutcheon is held by a pair of angels in intricately feathered garb. The heads are most likely representations of the benefactors who funded the construction of the tower. In the N wall beneath the tower, there is a doorway leading to the cloister; it is slightly impeded by the NW pillar of the tower. In the S wall there is a pointed lancet, the west-most in the row of 13th-century windows that lit the chancel; this window and the doorway indicate the original W extent of the chancel prior to the construction of the tower in the 15th century. Underneath the lancet in the S wall are three 17-century sculpted wall monuments (SL014-065029-; SL014-065030-; SL014-065031-). Above the arches, the tower tapers into a two-storey square belfry. At first floor level there are rectangular single lights in the W and E walls, a large pointed light in the N wall and a cinquefoiled ogee-headed single light with concave spandrels in the S wall. At second floor lev
- SL014-065010: Church, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065010-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-065014: Bastioned fort, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065014-. The following details are derived from Gallagher and Legg (2012, 14) and Bolton, Dargan and Roche (2017) to which the reader is referred. The fort, known as ‘Green Fort’, was probably built by Conyers Clifford in 1599 on the site of earlier ringfort, Rath-da-bhritog. It is shown as a regular earthwork with four corner bastions on the north side of the Garvoge River on Baxter’s map c.1600. It is also marked on the Down Survey maps of the barony of Carbury and the parish of Calrie dating from c.1655-8. In 1656 it was described as an earthwork in poor condition and Thomas Phillips represents it as an abandoned earthwork in his prospect of Sligo drawn c. 1685. The Green Fort was incorporated into a network of defensive earthworks which enveloped Sligo town during the Williamite wars (1688-91) that also included the 'Stone Fort' (built late 1650s; see SL014-065007-) on the site of old de Burgo castle (SL014-065006-), a redoubt (SL014-065028-) and series of enveloping earthen ramparts with bastions. When the town was attacked by Brigadier Patrick Sarsfield and his Jacobite forces in early October 1689 the commanding Williamite officer, Colonel Thomas Lloyd, abandoned the town and brought his troops to the Green Fort from where they were able to escape to Enniskillen under cover of darkness (see SL014-065024-). After the Jacobites took Sligo, Colonel Henry Luttrell, with the aid of Robert Burton 'his Majesty's engineer', refortified the Green Fort and added additional outworks. The fort was incorporated into the extensive earthen defences which surrounded the town. A plan of the works drawn at this time (see attached) describes the fort as ‘newly fortified with a good Chemien, Court, and Glacis, well palisaded’, having a well ‘which is continually full of water’. In June 1690, Sir Tadhg O’Regan was appointed commander of the Jacobite forces at Sligo. He brought ordnance from the town to strengthen the Green Fort and made improvements to the town’s defences. Sligo was strategically important to the Jacobites, as control of the town secured north Connacht and provided them with a platform from which they could raid into Ulster. By the summer of 1691 Williamite encroachment on Sligo seemed inevitable after the success of their campaign that had seen the fall of Athlone in June, and the Jacobite defeat at Aughrim on 12 July. These victories early in the campaign season meant that the main Williamite force could now advance on the Jacobite strongholds of Connacht and Clare. On Saturday 12th September 1691 the Green Fort was attached by Williamite forces under Colonel John Michelburne who had noted that while Sligo had been reinforced, only a single company of grenadiers was stationed at the fort. Michelburne and his forces advanced rapidly to secure the defensive ditch and broke into the fort, causing the defenders to escape by jumping over the parapets and retreating to the Stone Fort (SL014-065007-) in the town. O'Regan was besieged in the Stone Fort, and with the arrival of further Williamite troops, he negotiated a surrender marching away with his garrison and two cannons on Monday 14 September. O'Reagan handed the keys of the Stone Fort to Michelburne who was appointed Governor of Sligo. The Williamite forces took possession of the Green Fort which had ‘sixteen other cannons mounted in the wall, and thirty barrels of gunpowder in the magazines, as well as stores of all kinds.’ The fort appears to have been abandoned relatively soon after the war. It was in a ruinous condition by 1739, by which time its military function had been superseded by the barracks erected in the early 1700s in the town. Forthill House was built adjacent to the site in the mid-eighteenth century and from this period onwards, the Green Fort appears to have lain abandoned and unused. It is not marked on Taylor and Skinners 1777 map of Sligo or William Larkin’s 1810 map. It is named the ‘Green Fort’ on the OS 1st ed. 6-inch map (surveyed 1837) and on all later editions and revisions where it is shown as an isolated but well-defined rectilinear fortification with salient-angled corner bastions. The monument lies on raised ground c. 30m north of Connaughton Road (R286) adjacent to the entrance of Sligo University Hospital. The remains are those of an earthen artillery fortification measuring approximately 86m N-S by 90m E-W externally, and 45m by 49m E-W internally, standing c. 3.9m high at its maximum, enclosing an area of approximately 7.7 acres/3100m2. The fort comprises a raised rectangular platform, with salient-angled corner bastions, encircled by angled earthen slopes and ditches. There are no standing remains or internal features visible within the fort (entrances, covered way, gun emplacements, well etc.) and there is no surface indication of outer defensive works. The monument now forms part of a field system and has no regular access path. The south and eastern sides of the fort including the south-east and south-west bastions feature mature hedgerows. The interior of the fort, the west and north banks, and the north-east and north-west bastions show grass cover, with wet boggy ground conditions found within the northern ditch and along the east side of the fort. A later field boundary intersects the south-west bastion at the south-west corner of the site. (Gallagher and Legg 2012, 14; Bolton, Dargan and Roche 2017) This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 2/1983). SL014-065014-_01.jpg Henry Luttrell's 1689 plan of the town and forts of Sligo, as re-drawn by Wood-Martin (1889, ii, facing 134) showing the Green Fort (arrowed), with the 'Stone Fort' (B; SL014-065007-) and the redoubt (O; SL014-065026-). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 15 February 2018
- SL014-065023: Cross - Market cross, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065023-. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-065027: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065027-. Located in the church of Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-064008-), set in the N wall of the nave. A canopy tomb, dated 1506, erected for members of the O’Crean family. The O’Creans were a wealthy merchant family from Donegal, who came to Sligo in the late 15th century, and became patrons of the friars. This tomb is typical of the period, and a similar example can be found in Strade Dominican friary (MA070-067003-) in Co. Mayo. It is comprised of a tall, pointed canopy arch (H c. 4m) with elegant, finely carved tracery, only the upper section of which survives (H c. 4m), which encloses a chest tomb. The front panel (Wth 2.56m; H 1.20m; D 0.68m) of the tomb is carved with a row of nine religious figures, within miniature quatrefoiled ogee-headed arches framed by crocketed pinnacles. The ogees are richly decorated with vine leaf carvings. The central figure is Christ on the cross. The figures arrayed on Christ’s left are (L to R): St Dominic; St Catherine of Alexandria, robed and crowned, with a sword in her right hand and holding a circle against her breast, identified as her wheel; a female figure in a long belted gown carrying a staff, possibly representing a pilgrim; and the Virgin. To the right of Christ are: St John the Apostle; St Michael the Archangel, with his raised sword and shield; St Peter the Apostle, holding the keys to Heaven; and the figure of a bishop holding a processional cross, his hand raised in benediction. Above the figures, directly beneath the slab of the tomb chest, is a Latin inscription, which reads: ‘Here lies Cormac O'Craian and McSehon young Faraengasa his wife, the year 1506 (MCCCCCCVI)’ (Wood-Martin 1889, 70). Set in the back wall of the canopy is an armorial stone (SL014-065043-), which is a later insertion. Attached images: SL014-065027-_01.JPG O'Crean canopy tomb SL014-065027-_02.JPG carved front panel of tomb SL014-065027-_03.JPG carved figures (L side) SL014-065027-_04.JPG carved figures (R side) Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 7 May 2020
- SL014-065028: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065028-. Located in the church of Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), at the E end of the S wall of the chancel. It is set within the eastern-most of the chancel’s eight 13th-century lancet windows. This impressive wall monument, carved in the Renaissance style, was commissioned in 1624 by Lady Eleanor Butler to commemorate her husband Sir Donogh O’Connor Sligo, who died in 1609. It is comprised of three sections, surmounted by a representation of the Crucifixion. The upper section bears the sculpted crest and coat of arms of the O’Connor family, flanked by two figures, one bearing a key, the other a sword, possibly representing St Peter and St Paul (Wood-Martin 1889, 70). The two figures stand on small projecting corbels. A projecting hood-moulding separates this section from the larger middle section. Winged cherubs’ heads are carved above and below the middle section, at each corner. This section is dedicated to a representation of Lady Eleanor and her husband, who face each other, kneeling in prayer on either side of a small gabled altar or reliquary. Sir Donogh, on the left, is in full 17th-century armour, with his helmet placed on the floor behind him. Lady Eleanor is wearing a collarette typical of the period, and a long gown with a cape, as well as a rosary around her neck, and on her head a tiara or diadem. Each figure is placed within a round-headed arch, resting on the altar or reliquary in the centre, and on pillars ornamented with trophies. On the pillar to the left of Sir Donogh are a drum, flag and axe, and a shield, sword and musket. On the pillar to the right of Lady Eleanor are an open book, with a spade and torch over a censer or thurible (Wood-Martin 1889, 70). These items are most likely attributes meant to symbolize the lives they lived: prowess on the battlefield for Sir Donogh, and engagement in pious activities for Lady Eleanor. The lowermost section of the monument features a winged hour-glass surrounded by elaborate carvings of stylised flowers, foliage, scrolls and grapes, flanked on either side are two skulls. Above the monument is a small wooden canopy, installed by the OPW to protect it from the elements. Attached images: SL014-065028-_01.JPG Butler wall monument SL014-065028-_02.JPG Central panel Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 7 May 2020
- SL014-065029: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065029-. In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on a stone ledge on the S wall underneath the central tower, with two other armorial stones (SL014-065030-; SL014-065031-) of similar design. This armorial stone (H c. 0.53m H; Wth c. 0.60m) bears the arms and crest of Sir Roger Jones of Banada, Co. Sligo), sculpted in relief. It is without an inscription or a date. The shield bearing the coat of arms is worn, but the arms have been described as a cross between four 'pierced' stars and a pheon (or arrow) with broken staff, point downwards: the cross and stars are still visible (Crawford 1921, 29). Above the shield is a helmet with mantling of swirls and two tassels hanging on either side of the shield, the design of which is very similar to the O'Crean armorial stone (SL014-065043-) at the back of the O'Crean tomb (SL014-065027-) in the nave of the friary, which may have inspired it. The crest above the helmet, which is very weathered, is said to be a wing with stars (Crawford 1921, 30). Sir Roger Jones died in 1625 and was buried in St John's church in Sligo. The similarity of this armorial stone to the O'Crean's armorial stone, and indeed its presence in the friary, may be explained by the union of one Alice Jones to Robucke O'Crean, as implied by the inscription on another armorial stone tower (SL014-065031-) beneath the tower. Attached image: SL014-065029-_01.JPG: Slab at Left Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065030: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065030-. In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on a stone ledge on the S wall underneath the central tower, with two other armorial stones (SL014-065029-; SL014-065031-) of similar design. This armorial stone bears the arms and crest of the O'Crean family, sculpted in relief. It has no date, but there is a partial inscription at the bottom. The lower corners of the stone are missing. The design is comprised of a shield bearing the O'Crean coat of arms, a 'rampant' wolf (rearing up) between three hearts. Above this, is a helmet in profile, with elaborate mantling of stylised leaves and wings that frames the shield, and above the helmet the O'Crean crest, a 'rampant' demi-wolf holding a heart. The intricate and polished sculpted design suggests a date later than the 1616 O'Crean and French armorial stone (SL014-065027-) and the 1625 O'Crean and Jones armorial stone (SL014-065031-). Centrally placed on top of the stone is a smaller carved stone, which also bears the O'Crean arms, enclosed by a curvilinear frame with a pointed top, with the initials A C for Andrew Crean in a smaller panel below. It has been suggested that this piece is not in its original position, but may have come from the O'Crean and French armorial stone (SL014-065043-) and that it was one of two finials bearing the arms and initials of the two families (Crawford 1921, 29). Attached image: SL014-065030-_01.JPG: central slab Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065031: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065031-. In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on a stone ledge on the S wall underneath the central tower, with two other armorial stones (SL014-065029-; SL014-065030-) of similar design. Armorial stone (H 0.63m; Wth 0.58m) comprised of a shield underneath a helmet sculpted in relief, with an elaborately carved mantling of swirls and topped with a wreath. There is no crest, and immediately above the wreath is a date, 1625. The shield bears the O'Crean's coat of arms, a 'rampant' wolf (rearing up) between three hearts, which is 'impaled' with a 'rampant' lion, presumably the arms of the Jones family (Crawford 1921, 30). Indeed, across the base of the monument is an inscription revealing that it was commissioned by Robuck O'Crean and his wife Alice Jones: "Wee two are one by His decree That reigneth from eternity That first erected have these stones Wee Robuck Crean and Alice Jones" (O'Rorke 1890, 253) Attached image: SL014-065031-_01.JPG: Slab at Right Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065032: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065032-. In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display within an arched recess in the N wall of the chancel, with two other graveslabs (SL014-065033-; SL014-065034-). This fragment of a late medieval graveslab appears to consist of the upper portion of a trapezoidal or tapered slab. The edges of the slabs defined by two parallel grooves. In the upper half of the fragment is a panel of elaborate foliated carvings in low relief. The lower portion bears the faint outline of a central, vertical band, perhaps a cross shaft, and a curvilinear feature in the bottom left of the fragment. Attached image: SL014-065032-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065033: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065033-. In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display within an arched recess in the N wall of the chancel, with two other graveslabs (SL014-065032-; SL014-065034-). This graveslab is complete, though reconstructed from four fragments. Two grooves frame the stone at its edges, and its surface is entirely filled with two Latin inscriptions, carved in Lombardic script, alternating with elaborate decorative and figurative low relief carvings. The uppermost part of the stone carries an inscription commemorating Donatus MacSuibne and his wife. Underneath this, two soldiers or gallowglasses are depicted in profile, with helmets, long tunics, and the typical long axes, the gallowglasses' weapon of choice. The style of the helmet, in particular, suggests a date in the 16th century. These figures 'stand' on a second inscription, which is now illegible. Beneath this is a beast, possibly a lion, with a curved back and a long folded tail, with what appears to be a mirror image beneath. The lowermost section of the slab features the figure of a bishop flanked by intricate carving of window tracery, late medieval in style. It is quite an unusual design overall; another graveslab (SL014-065045-) in the chancel presents a somewhat similar decorative scheme, but there are no comparable examples elsewhere in Ireland. Attached image: SL014-065033-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065034: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065034-. In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display within an arched recess in the N wall of the chancel, with two other graveslabs (SL014-065032-; SL014-065033-). Fragment of a late medieval graveslab. It would have formed the upper section of a trapezoidal slab. The carved surface is worn and damaged, and sections have sheared off. An incised groove defines the top edge, and the partial outline of an elaborate cross, with curvilinear motifs, within a circle, can still be discerned. Attached image: SL014-065034-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065035: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065035-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the nave. Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date, which would have served as the lid of a coffin tomb. Though complete, it is fractured in two sections by roughly central horizontal break. An incised groove is carved along the edge of the slab. The surface is greatly weathered, but traces of a foliate or interlace-like design carved in low relief are still visible in the upper left section. Another graveslab (SL014-065037-), also on display on the nave wall, is very similar in style. Attached image: SL014-065035-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065036: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065036-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the nave. Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date. It would have been the lid of a coffin tomb. It is almost intact, missing only the top left corner. The decorated surface is worn, though carvings in low relief are visible in the upper section, comprised of four quatrefoils forming a lozenge, and the top and arms of what may have been a cross, the shaft of which extended the centrally down the length of the slab; the terminal of the cross shaft appears to be visible at the bottom of the slab, with at least one angled arm joining to the bottom left corner of the slab. Attached image: SL014-065036-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065037: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065037-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the nave. Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date, which would have formed the lid of a coffin tomb. It is complete, but fractured into two pieces by a roughly central horizontal break. A groove is carved along the edge of the slab. The decorative surface of the slab is worn, but traces of an interlace-like design are visible in the upper section, and the shaft of a cross extends centrally down the length of the slab. It is similar in style to another slab (SL014-065035-), also on display on the nave wall Attached image: SL014-065037-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065038: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065038-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the nave. Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date. It would have been the lid of a coffin tomb. It has a groove carved along its edge. No inscription or traces of decoration are evident on the surface. Attached image: SL014-065038-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065039: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065039-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the S chapel. Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date. It would have been the lid of a coffin-tomb. Two incised parallel grooves form a moulding around the edge of the slab. The surface of the slab is worn. The upper section bears a carving of a four-legged beast, on its side with head facing the top of the slab; it may be a lion, symbol of the risen Christ. Beneath this is an inscription, which fills the lower two thirds of the slab, and is carved in five lines, which follow the long axis of the slab. It is weathered and difficult to decipher, but may start with 'Hic Iacet Adam' ('Here lies Adam'). The style of the inscription is similar to that of two graveslabs (SL014-065033-; SL014-065045-) in the chancel, also probably late-medieval in date. The position of the inscription along the long side of the slab, rather than across its width, is unusual, and raises the possibility that the inscription is a later addition, perhaps a reuse of the slab. Attached image: SL014-065039-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065040: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065040-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the S wall of the sacristy, with two other graveslabs (SL014-065041-; SL014-065042-). This rectangular graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date, would have been the lid of a coffin-tomb. It is incomplete: the lower two thirds of the slab survive, fractured into two pieces by a horizontal break; the upper portion of the slab is missing. A raised central band, representing the shaft of a cross, extends the length of the slab, and two incised parallel grooves form an outer frame. Attached image: SL014-065040-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065041: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065041-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the S wall of the sacristy, with two other graveslabs (SL014-065040-; SL014-065042-). Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date, which would originally have formed the lid of a coffin-tomb. The surface is quite worn, and it now appears plain and unadorned, but there are traces of a possible inscription in the lower section of the slab. Attached image: SL014-065041-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065042: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065042-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the S wall of the sacristy, with two other graveslabs (SL014-065040-; SL014-065041-). Rectangular graveslab, possibly late medieval/early modern in date, which would have been the lid of a coffin-tomb. One corner is broken. The surfaced is surface is quite worn, and there is no trace of an inscription or decoration. Attached image: SL014-065042-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065043: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065043-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), inserted into the back wall of the O'Crean canopy tomb (SL014-065027-), in the N wall of the church. Armorial stone (H c. 0.71m; Wth 0.58) comprised of a shield bearing the O'Crean family arms combined with those of the French family, above which is a helmet sculpted in relief, with a mantling of swirls from which hang two tassels, framing the shield. Above the helmet is the O'Crean's crest, a small 'rampant' half wolf (rearing up) holding a heart. The surface of the shield is now quite worn, but a 1921 description recorded details of the engraving: the O'Crean arms, a 'rampant' wolf between three hearts, which are 'impaled' with the French arms, an ermine and a chevron (Crawford 1921, 29). The date 1616 is inscribed on either side of the wolf at the top. The initials AC and EF are engraved on either side of the shield, and are probably those of Andrew Crean and his wife Elizabeth French (ibid, 29). A Latin inscription, engraved across the base of the stone, reads 'cor mundum crea in me deus et spiritum rectum innova in visceribus meis'. It is from Psalm 51 and translates as 'Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels'. The first half of the inscription may have been the Crean's motto. This armorial stone is a late insertion into the back wall of the O'Crean canopy tomb (SL014-065027-). Three other armorial stones (SL014-065029-, SL014-065030-, SL014-065031-) of similar style are on display underneath the central tower of the friary. Attached image: SL014-065043-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065044: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065044-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the chancel. Trapezoidal graveslab, probably late medieval/early modern in date, which would have been the lid of a coffin-tomb. The slab is complete, but broken into three pieces by horizontal fractures. The edges are chamfered, and carved into a groove decorated with a row of small beads, giving the slab a decorative outer frame, but the surface is otherwise plain and unadorned. Attached image: SL014-065044-_01.JPG Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065045: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065045-. Located in Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display against the N wall of the chancel. This interesting graveslab may have originally lain recumbent over a grave or was possibly the lid of a coffin-tomb. It has the typical trapezoidal or coffin shape of late medieval graveslabs, however it is unusual in that the positioning of the inscription and decorative carvings suggests that the graveslab was inverted, with the broad end at the base instead of at the head of the grave. The surface of the slab is worn, and the original carvings are now difficult to trace. A groove formed a frame around the outer edge. A Latin inscription, carved in a late form of Lombardic script, extending over five rows, fills the upper section of the slab, but it is now barely discernible. This inscription and a scheme of decorative and figurative carvings were, however, still visible at the beginning of the 20th century, and were recorded in a drawing, reproduced in an OPW booklet available at the friary's visitor centre. The inscription was transcribed as follows: Hic Iace Tuordain McCatrues Ua Ux Marie Fecit Hoc This translates as 'Here lies Jordan MacCarthrues his wife Maria made this' (Anon. N.D.). Under the inscription, a crucifixion scene was depicted in low relief, with two human figures, probably the Virgin and St John, flanking the cross. Below this was a carving of a griffin, a mythical hybrid creature with the head, beak, front quarters, legs and wings of an eagle, and the ears, hind legs and tail of a lion, one of less than fifty such representations known in Ireland (Higgins 2015, 53-54). Beneath the griffin, there were three rows of rosettes; the upper two rows each had four rosettes, and the third row, seven smaller rosettes. The OPW booklet suggests a date of c. 1500 for the slab. However, an early 19th-century unpublished representation of the graveslab gives an alternative reading of the inscription, transcribed the last line as 'Fecit 1566' (pers. comm. Dr Robert Hensey). The style of the inscription and decorative scheme is somewhat similar to that of another graveslab (SL014-065033-) in the chancel, which also bears a Latin inscription in Lombardic script in the upper section, above figurative scenes, including an animal. Attached image: SL014-065045-_01.JPG SL014-065045-_01.JPG Early 20th-century representation of the slab (OPW booklet, Anon n.d.) Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 29 September 2020
- SL014-065046: Graveyard, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065046-. At Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-). A graveyard was an important element of the friary from its foundation: The Annals of Loch Cé for the year 1253 record that ‘A monastery was erected and a cemetery consecrated for the Friars Preachers at Sligech’ (Hennessy 1871, 403). The exact location and extent of the graveyard at this early stage is unknown. It would have been intended primarily for the friars themselves. However, it was common throughout the medieval period for members of wealthy and prominent families, many of whom were patrons of monasteries, to be buried within monastic graveyards, with the most powerful or generous benefactors often accorded the privilege of burial within the friary church itself. The Annals of Ulster record that in 1418 ‘Tigernan, son of Ualgarc Ua Ruairc, namely, king of Breifni, died this year… And he was buried in the monastery of Sligech.’, and the Annals of the Four Masters record that in 1454 ‘Brian Mac Donough, Chief of Tirerrill, died …after Unction and due Penance, and was interred in the monastery of Sligo.’ Following the Dissolution of the monasteries, O’Conor Sligo (Donal) petitioned Elizabeth I to preserved Sligo friary, including in his submission the extenuation that it was the burial place of his ancestors; his request was granted in 1568 (Cal. State Papers). Throughout the post-medieval period, as the friary fell into ruin, the graveyard remained the primary public burial ground for the Catholic population of Sligo town, as well as for many Protestant families. The graveyard’s current manicured condition bares little relation to the disorderly, overcrowded state into which it had deteriorated by the end of the 19th-century. The effects of centuries of burials within the confined space were compounded by the many deaths that resulted from the Cholera epidemic which ravaged Sligo town in 1832, and the Famine of 1845-49, and by the mid- to late 1800’s the graveyard was considered a danger to public health. To relieve the pressure, a municipal cemetery was opened in 1846 on the S edge of the town. The friary graveyard was finally closed for burials in 1895. A broad range of burial monuments can be seen in the graveyard, representative of various sculptural styles popular over its long period of use. None of the graves of the medieval Gaelic lordly families mentioned in the annals can now be identified. However, several medieval graveslabs -some fragmentary, and none in its original position- are on display in various parts of the church: on the N wall of the nave (SL014-065035-; SL014-065036-; SL014-065037-; SL014-065038-), on the N wall of the S chapel/transept (SL014-065039-), in a tomb recess in the N wall of the chancel (SL014-065032-; SL014-065033-; SL014-065034-), and in the sacristy (SL014-065040-; SL014-065041-; SL014-065042- ); they exhibit characteristics typical of that period, such as trapezoidal/coffin-shape, cross carved the length of the slab, and chamfered edges. A very finely sculpted, early 16th-century canopy tomb/wall monument (SL014-064027-), dedicated to the O’Crean family, is built into the N wall of the nave, an elaborate 17th-century wall monument (SL014-065028-), erected by Lady Elenor Butler, is set high in the S wall of the chancel, and three 17th-century wall monuments/armorial stones (SL014-065029-; SL014-065030-; SL014-065031-) are on display beneath the tower. Other graveslabs, headstones and box tombs visible throughout the ruins are of 18th- and 19th-century date. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 8 October 2020
- SL014-065047: Graveslab, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-065047-. Located in the church of Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the nave. Trapezoidal graveslab, bearing an inscription with the date '1723' or '1728'. However, the 18th-century inscription appears to have been carved over existing decoration, suggesting that the slab was re-used, and overall style of the graveslab also suggests an earlier date, perhaps in the 17th century. It would have been the lid of a coffin tomb. It is almost whole, except for a section of the top-right corner of the slab. All along the edge of the slabs are two grooves forming a shallow moulding, and it is similar in style and proportion to another graveslab, located in the S chapel of the church (SL014-065039-). While the surface is rather worn, it appears that some of the decoration included interlace-like design and the shaft of a cross, similar to another graveslab displayed on the N wall of the nave (SL014-065037-). The inscription is in English, and extends over eight lines, which read: 'Pray [for the] soul of Donogh, who dies the 22 of March, Anno Do. 1728 (or 1723)'. Attached image: SL014-065047-_01.JPG Compiled by Anne-Julie Lafaye Date of upload: 11 January 2023
- SL014-240: Anomalous stone group, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-240----. The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
- SL014-284001: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284001-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056004-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 1) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284002: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284002-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056008-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 2) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284003: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284003-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056011-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 5) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284004: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284004-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056015-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 9) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284005: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284005-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056017-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 11) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284006: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284006-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056018-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 12) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284007: Cross-slab (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284007-. One of seven cross-slabs removed from Carrowntemple graveyard (SL044-056002-) into the care of Sligo County Council (Sligo museum). For description see SL044-056020-. (Wallace and Timoney 1987, slab 14) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 18 June 2009
- SL014-284008: Memorial stone (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284008-. In Sligo County Museum is a stone with a Latin inscription recording the building of a bridge (SL020-230001-) over the river at Ballsadare Bay by Maria, wife of the soldier Roger Jones, in the year 1628 (Sligo Field Club files). The inscription reads 'Maria Jones, Rogeri Militus Uxor hunc pontem struxit. Anno 1628. Pons Fabricatricis menorat sua facta; superstat marmore qua viva posteritatis inops dumque lapis superest crit indelible nomen, dinque viatores, munera tanta beant.' There are no visible remains of the 17th-century bridge (SL020-230001-). The present bridge is a disused causeway bridge of 19th-century appearance between a railway line and the modern N4 road. It has two semicircular arches, roughly 12m apart, one partially replaced with concrete and the other blocked up leaving only a small lintelled channel. Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 29 August 2014
- SL014-284010: Rock art (present location), https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-284010-. This stone was discovered in the corner of an outbuilding attached to the former Cloverhill school in the townland of Knockshammer or Cloverhill. It was removed from the building and placed in Sligo County Museum (pers. comm. M.A. Timoney). The stone (0.84m x 0.27m by 0.15m thick) is is decorated on two opposing faces. The carvings were partly truncated when the stone was reworked for use as a quoin. Face 1: This has three sets of motifs, two double rings one with an intenal small ring like a cup and between them, a cup-and-ring motif. Face 2: This has the remains of a double ring, a single ring and a cup-and-ring motif. The original provenance of the stone is unknown but it may be that referred to by R.A.S. Macalister in a paer on Bronze-Age sculpture in Ireland (Breuil and Macalister 1921-4, 5, fn 1). In a footnote in the paper he records as follows: ‘The field on the side of the road opposite to that containing the Clover Hill burial-chamber contains a large number of rough boulders, not artificially arranged, but tending to surround a mound on top of which is a small tumulus. On one of these boulders M. l'Abbe Breuil detected a group of concentric circles, pocked. —R.A.S.M.’ It is possible that one or more of the boulders was used as a source of stone when the building was erected. (Timoney 2002c, 140, plate a) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 29 August 2014
- SL014-292: Wall monument, https://heritagedata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0c9eb9575b544081b0d296436d8f60f8&query=18a4b61b268-layer-9%2CSMRS%2CSL014-292----. This rectangular panel (0.60m x 0.52m) comprises the lower portion of a much larger memorial The triangular inscribed fragment (0.72m wide and 0.41m high) was found in a deep well at the east end of Quay Street, Sligo, in 1989. It is the upper apex of a much larger memorial or wall monument that was commissioned by Eleanor Butler, Countess of Desmond in 1624. The lower portion of the memorial was taken from Sligo in the mid-19th century and eventually found its way to Braganstown House in or after 1877 (Timoney 2013, 113) (see LH015-045---- for its present location). When grouped together (see Timoney 2013, 112) the inscription would have read: ELINORA/ BVTLER COM/ITISSA DESMOND / IN MEMORIAM / [P]ASSIONIS CHRISTI ET / SVI MARITI DONATI CON/OR MILITIS COMITATUS / SLIGO DOMINI MOR/TVI ANO DNI 1609 ET SUAE/ FILIAE DOMINAE ELISAB/ETHAE GERALD SEPULTAE / IN MONASTERIO DE / SLIGO CVM PREDICTO / DONATO / AN 1623 / ME FIERI FECIT AN / DNI 1624. This may be translated as: Eleanor Butler Countess of Desmond in memory of the Passion of Christ, and of her husband Donagh O’Conor, Knight, Lord of the County of Sligo, who died the year of Our Lord 1609, and of her daughter Lady Elizabeth Gerald, who was buried in the monastery of Sligo, with the aforesaid Donagh in the year 1623, caused me to be erected in the year of Our Lord 1624. The original location of this memorial is unknown but it has been suggested that it may have been inserted in the wall of a chapel in the castle of Sligo (Timoney 2013). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 12 September 2014

Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage)

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.

## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland)

- Radon: at the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887
- Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low. Parts of the land are made ground and water.
- Terrain model: LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1099, https://gsi.geodata.gov.ie/downloads/LiDAR/OPW_NASC/OPW_1099.zip (ZIP).
- Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use.

LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

## Neighbouring parcels within 25 m (Tailte Éireann)

- Parcel 759572: 1,662 m², https://everytownland.com/parcel/759572.md

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