Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Drumcliff, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drumcliff
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Drumcliff Cemetery (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.86763, -8.99763
- SMR number
- CL033-033002-
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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
Indicated as an oval graveyard (c. 90m N-S; c. 75m E-W) on the OS first edition 6-inch map but now extended further S (max. dims. 200m N-S; c. 160m E-W). A steeply sloping and extensive graveyard defined by a 19th-century stone wall with mature yew trees and many 18th and 19th century tombstones. Drumcliff church (CL033-033001-) and round tower (CL033-033003-) lie at the N extremity. The graveyard contains a pauper’s grave at the SW corner where the poor, particularly from the 19th-century workhouse, are buried. There is also the unmarked mass grave of some 350 cholera victims from an outbreak in the 1830’s and an ill-defined famine grave from 1846-9 where it is thought more than 2000 people are buried. (Lalor 1999, 109-10)
Compiled by: Michael Moore and Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 April 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.
Lalor, B. 1999 The Irish round tower. Wilton, Cork. Collins Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.