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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Kilvoydan, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Kilvoydan, 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
Kilvoydan
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated (1916)
Coordinates
52.94663, -9.05079
SMR number
CL017-119001-

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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 gentle SE-facing slope in pasture, overlooking Lough Atedaun c. 230m to the SE. Indicated on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1920) editions of the OS 6-inch map. This large oval-shaped ecclesiastical enclosure (diams. c. 115m WNW-ESE; c. 85m NNE-SSW) is defined from W-N-ENE and from SSE-S-SSW by a collapsed drystone wall overlying a grass-covered stony bank. From SE-SW-W the enclosing line is indicated by a curving laneway. Although no longer identifiable, Swan (1991, 63) suggested that the original entrance may have been at the E, based on the placement of a cross (CL017-119004-) just outside the enclosure there. The enclosure contains a graveyard (CL017-119003-) in the E sector which is also the site of ‘Kilvoydan Church’ (CL017-119002-). A dwelling house and modern farm buildings occupy the W perimeter and NW sector of the enclosure.

 

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott

 

Date of upload: 16-10-2025

References

Swan, D.L. 1991 Some ecclesiastical sites in Co. Clare. The Other Clare 15, 61-3.

Nearby in the register

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

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