Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Gleninagh North, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gleninagh North
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.13559, -9.20623
- SMR number
- CL002-008003-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On improved pasture c. 300m S of foreshore, in the SW quadrant of a poorly preserved ecclesiastical enclosure (CL002-008001-). A rectangular graveyard (int. dims. 42m NNE-SSW; 24m WNW-ESE) enclosed by a mortared stone wall (H 1.7m; Wth 0.4m). Access is through an iron gate set in well-dressed piers on the SSW side (Wth 1.3m). A rectangular medieval church (CL002-008002-) sits N of centre. To the S of the church regularly spaced N–S lines of small flags and boulders are set 1.8–2.3m apart. Two rough slab-lined graves lie c. 6.5m S of the church, 2.5m apart. One (L 2.5m; Wth 1.5m) is defined by irregular limestone blocks projecting (av. H 0.1m) above the sod cover, with some flat flags on its E end and a slab of undressed limestone (H 0.9m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.2m) standing at its W end. The other (L 3m; W 1.9m) is defined by a double line of small blocks of undressed stone. There are several more formally marked 20th century graves S and W of the church and several small grassed-over clearance cairns stand in the S of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin
Date of upload: 1 December 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.