Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Clonroad Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84599, -8.98121
- SMR number
- CL033-082017-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
On the S wall of the chancel of Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-) in its original position. A tomb canopy of c. AD 1500 over the Inchiquin tomb, the burial place of Toirdelbach Ua Briain, the founder of the Friary, and his descendants. It protrudes 0.22m from the wall and the table is missing. The canopy has five groined vaults with floriated bosses and supports a pediment decorated with an arcade of cusped ogee-headed panels. Described by Westropp (1895, 150-51) as ‘not of very happy design, the sides being quite plain; the upper part has a series of heavy horizontal mouldings along a flat dovetailed arch; above these is a panelling of small trefoil-headed recesses, and a plain sloping roof, the whole much resembling a fireplace.’ Carvings of flowers and leaves decorate the miniature groinings of the canopy and the sides of the recesses. (Westropp 1895, 135-55; Gilmore 1981, 28-30; Bradley, Halpin and King 1988, 73)
CL033-082017-_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 March 2014
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A. and King, H.A. 1988 Urban archaeological survey - county Clare. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Westropp, T. J. 1895 Ennis Abbey and the O'Brien tombs. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 25, 135-55.
Gilmore, H. 1981 The Inchiquin tomb, Ennis abbey. The Other Clare 5, 28-30.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.