Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Porsoon, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Porsoon
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yd
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97725, -9.28710
- SMR number
- CL015-027002-
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
On a low rise in rolling pasture and marshy scrub. Indicated on the 1840 and 1916 eds. OS 6-inch maps. A five-sided graveyard (29m N-S; 79m E-W) surrounding a medieval church (CL015-027001-), entered by a gate and stile at E. The enclosing stone wall is drystone-built (H 1.25-1.6m; T at base 1m) and partially covered in ivy. The graves within the enclosure are concentrated to the NE corner and S of the church and comprise plain unmarked uprights, family vaults, iron crosses and plain 20th century graveslabs. Several piles of rubble containing architectural fragments are present within the graveyard. The graveyard was expanded to the north in the 1990s and is still in use. St Augustine’s Well (CL015-028----) is c. 170m to the NE.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 28 June 2023
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.