Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Kilmoon West, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmoon West
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04417, -9.27000
- SMR number
- CL008-049006-
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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
Situated within a crude suboval drystone structure at Tobermoon holy well (CL008-049003-), which abuts a larger rectangular building (CL008-049005-) to the NW. Several architectural fragments are visible on the ground in the overgrown and rubble-filled interior of this suboval structure. One stone fragment is a hinge for a doorway. Another is a possible arch keystone (L 0.54m; Wth 0.22m; T 0.27m) which incorporates a human head carved in relief near the end of one of its long sides; the other end is chamfered. This may be the same stone described in the OS Letters (1839) as 'a stone near [Kilmoon church (CL008-049001-)] exhibiting a mitred head' (Comber 1997, 70), and by Westropp (1900-1902, 132) as a 'carved corbel, with a bishop's head'. Kilmoon church (CL008-049001-) lies c. 157m to the ENE.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL008-049006-_01.jpg Carved stone with mitred head
CL008-049006-_02.jpg Doorway hinge
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 14 December 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.
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Cursing stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.