Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Lisdoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisdoonvarna
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.03609, -9.26621
- SMR number
- CL008-050004-
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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
A plaque recording the erection of the ‘castle’ at Lisdoonvarna in 1619 by Fineen FitzPatrick was formerly built into a building near the site of the castle (CL008-050001-). It was moved in the 20th century to Ennistymon where it has been set into a boundary wall on the W side of Bogbere Street (CL015-143----). The inscription reads: FININFICTE PATRICKE. ME FECIT. 1619 DENIS. CLOCHE which may be translated as Fineen FitzPatrick had me made 1619. Denis Cloche which is almost certainly the ancient form of the surname ‘Clohessy’. The letters are false relief in a script of late gothic character that was used by masons well into the 17th century.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 2 April 2014
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.