"Arch. Inventory Church (site). Within Jamestown on the floodplain of the River Shannon. A Franciscan convent dedicated to St Mary was founded c.1644, and a meeting of Catholic bishops was held there in 1650. The Franciscans held a last recorded chapter meeting there in 1658, but the community continued in the area into the 18th century, and titulat guardians were appointed down to 1860. The site of their convent is sometimes thought to be the site of the parish church, but is more likely to have been at a different location, sometimes identified as that of the old national school (181). Church. ‘Church (in Ruins).’ On a gently NE-facing slope on the bank of the River Shannon and just outside the N gate of Jamestown. Parish church of Jamestown, built in the 17th century and first mentioned as Kilshreenan in 1683 (Logan 1971, 323). It is within a triangular graveyard defined by masonry walls, and is probably on the site of St Trenan’s or Srianan’s church, which is first mentioned in 13

"Éamonn Ó Tuathail, Éigse VI: 253-4. The reference is to Baile Shéamuis, Jamestown, which was so named “in hounour of James I,” PG. Its old name was Cell Srianain, Annals of Ulster, iii, p.360; Misc. Annals. P. 138. In 1595 Red Hugh O’Donnell led his army across a ford here, Life of Hugh Roe O’Donnell (ed. Rev. D. Murphy), p.80. “The Shannon at Jamestown suddenly passes from the character of a broad and deep river to that of a shallow, rapid ang unnavigable stream,” PG, s.n. Jamestown. A longer form of the name is ‘Beallakillesrenan’ (= Béal Átha Cille Srianáin?), Hardiman, 348. The late Father P. Walsh states (Irish Book Lover xxvii, 244) that Cell Trénáin is the correct form of the name (279-80). "

Additions to the Commentary on the Poem on the Shannon (Éigse VII, 271-274)

253-4. The true name of Jamestown is Tulach according to Calendar of State Papers – 14 Aug. 1622 “There was established a corporate town in a commodious place on the Shannon called Tullagh and now incorporated by the name of Jamestown” – not withstanding Dr. Paul Walsh’s dicta.

"“This town was built by Sir Charles Coote AD 1622, at the charges of King James from whom the town in named… The town hath 200 acres under its liberty; the town and land belong to the Earl of Mountrath. The part of the town without the North gate belongs to the Bishop of Ardagh formerly called Killshreenane though now vulgarly reputed part of the Corporation” (Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Antiquarian Society, Iml. 1, Uimh.3, c.1931/2, lch 40) "

“In the time of Lord Grandison’s government, and upon the plantation of the county of Leitrim, there was established a corporate town in a commodious place on the Shannon, called Tullagh, and now incorporated by the name of Jamestown, the building, walling, and fortifying of which was referred to the care of Sir Charles Coote, a principal gentleman of that province of approved industry and integrity, fit for the undertaking of such a work, and of a good estate answerable for the same. And for the good of this new town, at the petition of the principal gentleman and freeholders of the county of Roscommon, it was established by Act of State that the assizes and quarter sessions for that county should be kept for one and twenty years at a place within tht at county bordering upon Jamestown, and now called Charlestown; and the care of building a gaol and sessions house there was committed by the Deputy and Council to the said Sir Charles Coote, who ahs undertaken the work without charge to

“Cill Rioghnain eile a Muigh Luirg”

Bréifne IV (1971) 326-7

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