Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Portlecka, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portlecka
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92816, -8.99022
- SMR number
- CL025-070005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Lying within Ruan graveyard (CL025-070002-) c. 3.5m W of the W wall of the church (CL025-070001-). The remains of a chest tomb, much broken and missing one of its side stones and its top slab. A slab set upright on its side within the church may be from the top of the tomb. The slab bears the following inscription: Casey P 1783 185 …..d by P..Casey/ for him & /……. 1783. Some of the inscription is below ground level. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/ruan_graveyard_transcriptions.htm Accessed 22 September 2014
CL025-070005-_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of revised upload: 22 September 2014
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.