Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture
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
- 52.84601, -8.98148
- SMR number
- CL033-082024-
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 display under the canopy of the Royal/McMahon tomb in the nave of Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-). A fragment of a pieta (H 0.36m; Wth 0.48m; D 0.32m), or ‘Our Lady’s Pity’ as it was known in the 15th century, which may have originally formed part of the Royal tomb (CL033-082015-). One of the few remaining fragments of 15th-century free-standing stone sculpture in the round in Ireland. Carved in limestone, the remaining fragment shows the body of Christ lying upon the knees of the Virgin, the arms crossed at the wrists and the right arm grasped at the elbow by Our Lady’s left hand. (Hunt 1975, 36-8; Pl. II, 2; Harbison 1984, 13-14; Bradley, Halpin and King 1988, 77)
CL033-082024-_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 15 April 2014
References
Hunt, J. 1975 The Influence of alabaster carvings on medieval sculpture in Ennis Friary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 17, 35-8.
Bradley, J., Halpin, A. and King, H.A. 1988 Urban archaeological survey - county Clare. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Harbison, P. 1984 The Ennis pieta fragment. The Other Clare 8, 13-14.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.