Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Kilclehaun, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilclehaun
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilclehaun Grave Yd.
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilclehaun Grave Yd (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.78250, -9.45594
- SMR number
- CL038-026001-
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
In the corner of a field on a gentle SE-facing slope. Listed as 'Graveyard' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subrectangular area (int. dims. 26m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) defined by a masonry wall at NW and NE and a drystone wall on the other sides. It contains c. 20 recumbent headstones, some uninscribed and some with 20th-century dates. A holy well (CL038-026002-) is at the centre.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.