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Graveyard

Coad, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Coad, 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
Coad
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard (1916)
Coordinates
52.96421, -9.07807
SMR number
CL017-066002-

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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

On a rise in undulating pasture. Outlined and named ‘Grave Yard’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This subrectangular graveyard (55m E-W; 21-35m N-S) is enclosed by a double-faced drystone wall with a gate near the W end of the S wall, adjacent to a lane. It contains a late-15th/16th century church (CL017-066001-) in its N side. Most of the legible burial markers date to the 19th and 20th centuries. Macnamara (1901, 361) concluded that a number of graves were marked with stones taken from a demolished mortuary chapel built against the exterior face of the church’s E gable wall in 1735 by Thomas MacGorman of Inchiquin. One grave-marker is part of a crest with a man with a spear on a small horse—possibly the ‘stone with armorial bearings’ which was found within the mortuary chapel in 1839 (Comber 1997, 15). The graveyard also contains a number of architectural fragments (CL017-066004-). Archaeological test excavations just SE of the graveyard (Excavation licence no. 96E101) uncovered no archaeological remains (Hodkinson 1997); nor did archaeological testing and monitoring (Excavation licence no. 00E676) immediately to the S of the graveyard (Read 2001; Carey 2002).

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott 

 

Date of upload: 13-10-2025

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

Carey, A. 2002 Coad Church, Coad. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2001: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 19, No. 76. Bray. Wordwel

Hodkinson, B. 1997 Coad Church, Coad. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 1996: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 7, No. 23. Bray. Wordwell.

Read, C. 2001c Coad Church, Coad. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2000: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 31, No. 91. Bray. Wordwell.

Macnamara, G.U. 1901 Inchiquin, County Clare (Concluded). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 341-64.

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

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