Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 52.84611, -8.98118
- SMR number
- CL033-082031-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Situated within Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-). A wedge-shaped limestone slab (L 1.72m; Wth at W 0.6m; Wth at E 0.42m), with rough edges and broken in two across the middle lies set into the floor c. 1m from the N wall of the sacristy with its head to the W. This medieval slab is the earliest known graveslab from the Friary. It is not in its original position and has several 19th-century graveslabs and occasional uninscribed and undated slabs set into the ground adjacent to it. A single-lined incised cross rising from a stepped base runs the length of the slab but the top of the cross is completely worn away. (Bradley, Halpin and King 1988, 74)
CL033-082031-_01.jpg and CL033-082031-_02.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 April 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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.