Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

Located within an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL018-024001-). Described as ‘the site of an old Church and burying ground called Cill-Tonachta’ by O’ Donovan (Comber 1997, 90). This roughly rectangular graveyard (31.5m E-W; 20.5m N-S) is defined by a drystone wall (H 1m). Access is gained through a gateway towards the S end of the W wall. The fragmentary remains of the foundations of the E and S walls of a church (CL018-024002-) are centrally located within it. A number of graves are marked by uninscribed upright stones but most are modern 19th and 20th-century graves. Some architectural fragments from the church, including a corbel stone, a window sill stone, a jambstone and dressed stone, are visible within it (Large 2010, 152-4). (Swinfen 1992, 85)

Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Lynda McCormack

Date of upload: 22 April 2022

References

Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.

Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.

Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.