Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Garryncallaha, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garryncallaha
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (1916)
- Coordinates
- 52.96297, -9.00481
- SMR number
- CL017-094003-
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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
At the centre of a large early ecclesiastical enclosure (CL017-094001-). Marked and labelled ‘Graveyard’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1915, 272) suggested that the graveyard wall was built with stone robbed out from the ecclesiastical enclosure wall. A rectangular graveyard (int. dims. L 35m E-W; Wth 30m N-S) is defined by a mortared stone wall (H c. 1.2m) and is accessed through a gate at the S end of the E wall leading from a gap in the ecclesiastical enclosure wall outside. A ruined church (CL017-094002-) stands at the centre and, in 1999, the legible gravemarkers dated from c. 1890 to 1990. A souterrain (CL017-094004-) is located c. 25m to the SE.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell
Date of upload: 21-10-2025
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. Westropp, T.J. 1915 Prehistoric remains (forts and dolmens) in Burren and its south western border, Co. Clare. Part 12: North Western Part. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5, 45-62, 249-74.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.