Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Canon Island, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Canon Island
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (1922)
- Coordinates
- 52.67897, -9.03741
- SMR number
- CL060-011003-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A subrectangular graveyard (32m NW-SE; 36m NE-SW) immediately SW of Canon Island abbey (CL060-011002-). The graveyard is defined by the abbey itself at NE and by the overgrown curve of the ecclesiastical enclosure to the SW. The area is still used for burial and there are some 19th and 20th century headstones in the church and in the chapel N of the church.
The following image has been uploaded:
CL060-011003-_01.jpg View of graveyard from S.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 August 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Gatehouseunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.