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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kilfenora, 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
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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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 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

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

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