Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Coad, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coad
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96426, -9.07795
- SMR number
- CL017-066006-
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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
The northern one of two graveslabs situated at the E end of a church (CL017-066001-). This flat graveslab is now illegible but Macnamara (1896, 230) recorded the following inscription: ‘Here leyth the body of Ellinor Creagh, weife to Dominic Power who departed this life on the 15th of December 1673. His son Edward Power who departed April 22 1682.’ Macnamara (1901, 360) considered this to be one of the few 17th-century graves in County Clare for which there is documentary evidence, and quoted (1901, 360) a surviving document showing that Dominic Power received permission to build this tomb from the Earl of Inchiquin. There is a second 17th-century graveslab (CL017-066005-) immediately to the S. The location of these two graveslabs on the site of the altar suggests that the church was no longer in regular use by the middle of the 17th century.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 14-10-2025
References
Macnamara, G.U. 1896 Church of Coad. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead 3, 229-231
Macnamara, G.U. 1901 Inchiquin, County Clare (Concluded). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 341-64.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.