What is recorded here

Indicated is a rectangular graveyard in County Roscommon, Ireland, holding remnants of the monastery of St. Comán. Human bones surfaced in Goff St. near the site around 1917, while an inscribed slab now stands in the County Museum and a cross-slab leans against the church wall. The place preserves fragile traces of a lost religious community through scattered stone and buried life.

The monastery of St. Comán (RO039-043006-) was centered on the site now occupied by the Church of Ireland church where there are some fragments of transitional masonry, and human bones were uncovered in Goff St. to the E c. 1917. A slab with an early inscription (RO039-043009-) found in the rectangular graveyard (dims c. 80m E-W; c. 45m N-S) is now in the County Museum (RO038-043024-), while a cross-slab (RO039-043016-) found more recently was moved to a position against the S wall of the present church in 2013. A rough-out of a cross-base (RO0239-043027-) is also in the graveyard defined by masonry walls. Also present are fragments of the masonry of a large Gothic window, and a cross-slab (RO039-043028-) with a crudely-incised latin cross and a single-line ring is used as a grave-marker. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 Amended: 16 August 2016

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