Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cursing stone
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
- 53.04418, -9.26994
- SMR number
- CL008-049009-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This record is for the original location of a number of cursing stones noted by Westropp (1900-02, 132) at a holy well (CL008-049003-) c. 120m SW of Kilmoon graveyard (CL008-049002-). On inspection in 1998 no such stones were present. The number of stones and their present location is unknown.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 November 2016
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
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.