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Burial ground

Kilclehaun, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Kilclehaun, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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