Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfenora
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99096, -9.21818
- SMR number
- CL016-015001-
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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 on a gentle N-facing slope in an area of undulating pasture. Listed as ‘Ecclesiastical enclosure’ in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). The curving street at SW, the townland boundary to NW and the laneway to NE of Kilfenora Cathedral (CL016-015002-) may represent the outline of an ecclesiastical enclosure. Swan (1991, 110, 112) noted this and also commented that the ‘partly natural’ rocky platform NW of the church might represent an inner enclosure.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 4 September 2018
References
Swan, D.L. 1991 The churches, monasteries and burial grounds of the Burren. In J. W. O'Connell and A. Korff (eds.), The book of the Burren, 95-118. Tír Eolas, Newtownlynch, Kinvara, Co. Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.