Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone head (present location)
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
- 52.84414, -8.98163
- SMR number
- CL033-190----
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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
On display in Clare Museum, Ennis. A small carved stone head (H 0.2m) at the top of a limestone block (0.4m; 0.23m) originally from Glencolumbkille, Co. Clare. According to the label 'the closest parallels are found on stone carvings of the 8th and 9th century AD but the shape and flatness of the face bear some resemblance to earlier Iron Age carvings'. See original location record (CL010-038005-).
Reference:
Ní Ghabhláin, S. 1988 Carved stone head from Glencolumbcille, County Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 118, 135-8.
CL033-190----_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.