Mausoleum in Commons, County Leitrim

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What is recorded here

Situated towards the N and E edge of a plateau with rock outcrop. A small roofless chapel or mausoleum (ext. dims 5.05m E-W; 3.45m N-S) of the O’Duignans of Castlefore (LE024-053----) abuts the W end of the S wall of the large church (LE025-096001-) at Fenagh, but the doorway in its W wall is destroyed. There is a single light in the E wall, and the O'Duignan commemorative plaque (LE025-096007-) with a Latin inscription dated 1671 is on the exterior of its S wall.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LE025-096012

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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Oliver Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791; Ledwich, Edward, 1738-1823, continuator, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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