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Graveyard

Poulnalour, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Poulnalour, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Poulnalour
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd. (1916)
Coordinates
53.00853, -9.03170
SMR number
CL010-108003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in the N centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL010-108001-). Indicated as a subcircular walled area and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1842 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Indicated as an elongated suboval area with a broken outline on the 1897 OS 25-inch plan and the 1920 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This irregular-shaped overgrown graveyard (c. 32m ENE-WSW; c. 20m NNW-SSE) is defined by a variety of enclosing elements: a faintly traceable fosse (Wth 0.8m; D 0.2m) from N to ENE; a large facing-boulder (L 1.4m; H 0.44m) at the E edge which has been moved out of its original position; a largely overgrown bank (av. Wth 2.8m; int. H 0.4m; max. ext. H 1m) comprising original and later loose stones along the relatively straight E-SW perimeter; and a line (L 3m; H 0.5m) of four contiguous outer facing-stones at the SW. Occupying the W interior and edge of the graveyard is a church (CL010-108002-). To the N of this the NW quadrant of the graveyard including its enclosing element appear to have been removed. Within the overgrown graveyard several large blocks are scattered throughout the N half. Near the S edge is a small subcircular cairn. Rough graves or headstones are mainly evident in the SW sector. Among the poorly defined graves, the tallest marker is a holed stone (CL010-108005-) situated 3m from the graveyard’s SW edge. According to historic OS maps the site of a friary (CL010-108004-) lies c. 8m to the ESE of the graveyard.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott

Date of upload: 28 June 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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