List of Placemarks
The Cashel Circular enclosure of drystone construction measuring 50.5m by 40m. Inside its walls are Teach Molaise or St Molaise’s Chapel, Templenatinny a Church or domestic building, Templemolaise the Mens Church or Monastery, The Leacht (altar) know as Clocha Breaca or cursing stones. The Leacht known as Altarbeg. The Leacht known as the East Altar. Two corbelled Clochauns (beehives) Toorybrennel and Trahannacoreesh. The mens cemetery and various gravemarkers. | |
Templemolaise Templemolaise or The Mens Church or Monastery is the first building on your right as you enter the Cashel from the southern entrance | |
Templenatinny Templenatinny or The Church of the Fire is believed to be the kitchen of the Monastery and possibly the only building where fire was allowed. It is situated next to the main beehive or clochaun | |
Toorybrennel Clochaun Toorybrennel Clochaun is a beehive cell of drystone construction with a corbelled roof situated at the west of the Cashel next to Templenatinny | |
Teachanalais Clochaun Teachanalais Clochaun or Sweathouse is situated outside the Cashel on the north side | |
Trahannacoreesh Clochaun Trahannacoreesh Clochaun is a beehive cell of drystone construction situated at the north east arc of the Cashel | |
Mens Cemetery Mens cemetery within the Cashel, the Cashel was cloistered and no women were buried within its walls | |
Templenaman Templenaman or The Womens Church is situated just beyond the turn to the Cashel on the south of the island.
Womens Cemetery Womens Cemetery and graves at Templenaman. From left to right graves of Margaret Waters, Mary Waters and Ann Manion |
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House of Martin Heraughty | |
House of Michael Waters | |
House of Dominick ‘Crimley’ Harte | |
House of Francis Heraughty | |
House of Dan Heraughty | |
House of John Boyle | |
House of Michael McGowan | |
House of Henry Brady | |
House of Michael Brady | |
House of Mary Brady | |
House of Joe Donlon | |
House of Dan Heraughty | |
House of Mary Ann Manion | |
Teach Molaise Stations 1 and 16 Teach Molaise Station numbers 1 and 16. The islands traditional ‘stations of the cross’ started and finished here | |
Laghta Columbkille Station 2 Laghta Columbkille Station number 2 is situated west of Templenaman in an adjacent field | |
Relickoran Station 3 Relickoran Station number 3 is comprised of two enclosures and two leachta one in each enclosure. It is situated near the cliffs south west of the Cashel adjacent to Inishmurray Street | |
Ollamurray Station 4 Ollamurray or ‘Marys Altar’ Station number 4 is situated by a low cliff edge near Clashymore harbour | |
Trahanaareear Leacht Station 5 | |
Crossmore Leacht Station 6 Crossmore Leacht Station number 6 is situated on moorland overlooking northerly cliffs | |
Tobernacorragh Leacht Station 7 Tobernacorragh Leacht site of Station number 7. No remains of this site were found by the survey team in 1998 | |
Lahgta Patrick Station 8 Lahgta Patrick Station number 8 most of the station has disappeared since this picture was taken.The station is situated at Rue point at the east end of the island | |
Treenode More Station 9 Treenode More Leacht or ‘Great Trinity’ Leacht Station number 9 situated south east of the Cashel near the cliffs by Inishmurray Street | |
Treenode Beg Station 10 Treenode Beg Leacht or ‘Small Trinity’ Leacht Station number 10 is now only represented by a low rubble mound and the cross slab has been removed to the schoolhouse for preservation | |
Crossatemple Station 11 Crossatemple Leacht or ‘Station of Mary’ Station number 11 is situated within the cemetery enclosure at Templenaman by the cliff edge | |
Templenaman Station 12 Templenaman Station number 12 (The Womens Church) or Temple Murray (Marys Church) is situated within the north end of the womens cemetery | |
Altarbeg Station 13 Altarbeg Station number 13 is the first altar in front of you as you enter the Cashel from the southern entrance | |
East Altar Station 14 East Altar Station number 14 is situated to the rear of Templemolaise | |
Clocha Breacha Station 15 Clocha Breacha Station number 15 | |
Laghtnasaggart Leacht Station Laghtnasaggart Leacht site of, ‘The Priests’ Leacht and Station. It is situated in low lying peaty wet ground by the north shore | |
Leacht Former site of a Leacht but now destroyed situated at the junction of a field of dykes on a low hill north east of the Cashel | |
Kelp Drying Wall Kelp Drying Wall situated west of Clashymore harbour, opposite Ollamurray | |
Cist Remnants Bronze age short Cist and possibly a megalithic tomb situated immediately west of Clashymore harbour on cliff edge | |
Enclosure Remnants of sheep pen or crush surviving only to a stones height | |
Promontory Fort Situated on the cliff edge near the extreme western end of the island | |
Track A pronounced linear feature running east/west, possibly a remnant cart track | |
Mounds Large and medium peaty mounds extending over a wide area of moorland, they are probably abandoned turf ricks | |
Stone Kerbs Two groups of edge set stones situated in the northern moorland they may be remnants of funerary monuments | |
Structural Remains Possible remains of a medieval building | |
Kelp Walls Three short low drystone wall remnants lying adjacent to the cliff edge on the northern shore | |
Tobernacorragh Well Tobernacorragh Well, ‘Holy Well’ or ‘Well of the Fair Wind. A mound supports a couple of large slabs which span the wet hollow and remains of a lintelled roof. | |
Trahanee Trahanee is a small drystone enclosure with a south facing entrance that may well be the remnants of a cell or clochaun. It is situated in enclosed pasture overlooking northerly cliffs | |
Cairn Cairn on level ground in flat arable field by the north east shore | |
Enclosure A rectangular setting of stones some 4m square possibly a kelp burning site | |
Tobernasool Tobernasool site of ‘Holy Well’ there are no visible remains of this traditional holy well | |
Mill Vestigial remains of a mill undercroft situated at the outfall of the stream by the womens cemetery | |
Pollnashantunny Pollnashantunny or Poll a Sean Toinne (Hole of the Strong Wave). A cleft in the cliffs running due north south it is located at the west of the island | |
Inishmurray Schoolhouse | |
Clashymore Harbour Clashymore Harbour looking west | |
Joe Mc Gowans boat ? Could the boat in this picture have Joe McGowan on board making another trip to the island with visitors. | |
Cros Mhor or Great Cross Possible site of Cros Mhor the name implies a Great Cross stood here at one time. Nothing of note marks this area now | |
Kinavally Point Kinavally or Portiaragh Point situated at the far north west of the island | |
Rue Point Rue Point situated at the far south east of the island | |
Pier Concrete Pier situated below the Schoolhouse is where Domick Hartes boat (10 people) and Mike John Bradys boat (11 people) were the last to leave the island on Friday the 12th of November 1948 | |
Portachurry Portachurry or Currach Harbour south of Templenaman |