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Burial ground

Finnor More, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Burial ground, Finnor More, 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
Finnor More
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kylebreedia Burial Ground
Latest-edition OS map
Kylebreedia Grave Yard (1922)
Coordinates
52.79705, -9.42008
SMR number
CL038-036001-

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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

On top of a hillock. Listed as 'Grave Yard' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A raised subrectangular area defined by a scarp (H 1.2-2m) and surrounded by a masonry wall (int. dims. 70m E-W; 55m N-S). Recumbent headstones, dating largely from c. 1833 to 1915, occupy much of the centre while upright headstones, dating from c. 1890 to the present, are on the periphery W-N, and there are c. 20 vaults dating from c. 1850 to the present. A coffin-resting stone and external steps are on the perimeter wall close to the NW corner. The burial ground is within an enclosure (CL038-36003-) and there is a holy well (CL038-036002-) inside the perimeter at E.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 28 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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