Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Abbey West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbey West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12692, -9.05391
- SMR number
- CL003-029014-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Several tapered and chamfered graveslabs occur in the abbey at Corcomroe (CL003-029002-) that no longer bear traces of carving. In 1893 the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead noted four cross-bearing slabs (see CL003-029010-, CL003-029011-, CL003-029012- and CL003-029013-). (Carey 2008, 18-19)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 April 2016
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1986).
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Wall monument - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.