Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Clogher (corcomroe By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogher (corcomroe By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kiltonaghty Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kiltonaghty Church (Site of) (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.97370, -9.18336
- SMR number
- CL016-024002-
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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 top of a prominent hill, named Island Hill on the OS maps, in generally undulating poor pastureland with panoramic views. Indicated and named Kiltonaghty Church (in ruins)’ on the 1840 edition of the OS 6-inch map; by the time of the 1916 ed. it was annotated ‘Site of’. Described as ‘the site of an old Church and burying ground called Cill-Tonachta’ by O’ Donovan (Comber 1997, 90). Named ‘Kiltonaghta’ by Westropp (1900, 137) who noted it was ‘levelled since 1839’.
This church is roughly centrally located within a graveyard (CL016-024003-), which is surrounded by an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL016-024001-). All that survives of it is a grass-covered section of the S wall (L 12-14m; Wth 1m; H 0.5m) and the return of the E wall (L 3m). A number of architectural fragments and dressed stone noted within the graveyard (Large 2010, 152-4) are probably be from it. According to local information, the foundations of the church were removed in the late 1930s.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 22 April 2022
References
Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.