Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ecclesiastical enclosure
Finnor More, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Finnor More
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79684, -9.42028
- SMR number
- CL038-036003-
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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
Situated on top of a hillock. A burial ground (CL038-036001-) and holy well (CL038-036002-) are within an enclosure (diam. 82m NNW-SE) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 6.3-8m; int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.6-0.9m) SE-S, and a scarp (H 1.7m) NW-N. The holy well is inside the graveyard at E.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: April 2020
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.