Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Architectural fragment
Dysert (inchiquin By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysert (inchiquin By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91143, -9.06651
- SMR number
- CL025-095012-
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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
A Romanesque corner capital (H 0.3m) described by Harbison (1987, 10) as ‘bearing a head, sloping outwards and downwards on the corner and placed in luxuriating foliage emanating from above and below the head before spreading out to cover the two unequal sides of the capital.’ Found in rubble outside the wall of Dysert O’Dea church (CL025-091001-) and housed in the Archaeology Centre in Dysert O’Dea castle (CL025-095002-).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 6 September 2017
References
Harbison, P. 1987 Two Romanesque carvings from Rath Blathmaic and Dysert O'Dea, Co. Clare. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 29, 7-11.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stone (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.