Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Inishcaltra Or Holy Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inishcaltra Or Holy Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yards (1920)
- Coordinates
- 52.91540, -8.44827
- SMR number
- CL029-009012-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a gentle S-facing slope on the E side of Inis Cealtra S of St. Caimin’s church (CL029-009011-). An irregularly shaped graveyard (c. 25m E-W; c. 27m N-S) defined by a low mortared wall (av. int. H 0.65m; Wth 0.4m; ext. H 1.1m) of roughly coursed rectangular blocks, cross-capped with rough slabs. There is an entrance gate (Wth 1.26m) at the SW corner of St. Caimin’s church where it meets the graveyard wall. A small stile at W (Wth 0.28m) is splayed internally and externally. The E wall is shared with the ‘Saint’s graveyard’ (CL029-009030-). The headstones are mostly 20th century but a possible cross-inscribed stone (CL029-009195-) is erected at E just outside the entrance to the Saint’s graveyard.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 October 2015
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.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Sundialunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.