Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Shrine
Termon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Termon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.04624, -9.06096
- SMR number
- CL010-021011-
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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 immediately outside the NE wall of the graveyard (CL010-021003-) around Templecronan Church (CL010-021002-). A gabled shrine, with two large slabs leaning inwards (L 1.45m WNW-ESE; Wth 1.05m; max. H 0.9m) open at the top, with a slab forming each gable end. A second slab shrine (CL010-021010-) is in the graveyard 5m SE of the Church. Shrines of this nature are ‘generally dated to the 7th century’ (Sheehan 1982, 40) and were probably designed to house the exhumed corporeal relics of notable ecclesiastics. These shrines are therefore likely to be much older than the church which is of 12th century date.
The following photograph is uploaded:
CL010-021011-_01.jpg Shrine from S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 October 2016
References
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Sheehan, J. 1982 The early historic church-sites of North Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 24, 29-47.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.