Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Oughtdarra, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oughtdarra
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard (Disused) (1915)
- Coordinates
- 53.05898, -9.33906
- SMR number
- CL004-057002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a sheltered hollow overlooked by higher ground on all sides. Indicated as an irregular area (c. 38m N-S; c. 20m E-W) and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1842 OS 6-inch map with a church (CL004-057001-) within and named ‘Grave Yard (Disused)’ on the 1915 ed. No evidence of the graveyard or the boundary indicated on the OS maps was noted on field inspection in 1998. Described by Westropp (1900, 135) as a poorly preserved church ‘in a graveyard’. The southern portion of the graveyard as marked on the 1842 map was used as a children’s burial ground (CL004-057006-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 5 October 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.