Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

On the S-facing slopes of a ridge in an area of rushy grazing. Named ‘Kilcasheen Graveyard’ on the 1840 and 1922 OS 6-inch maps and depicted by a broken line as a rectangular area (c. 23m NE-SW; c. 17m NW-SE). O’Curry noted in the OS Letters (Comber 1997, 122) that it was a deserted burial place by 1739 and that many who died in the immediately following years of famine were buried here by his own grandfather. The area is delimited by the field/townland boundary at SW and is undelimited elsewhere. It contains a number of different types of gravemarkers. Many graves are marked by plain markers (max. H 0.3m), generally in a N-S alignment. Two undated rectangular slabs lie at the NE end. Graves lie to the N and S and within the possible foundations of a church (CL065-026002-). The graveyard was used in the past as a children’s burial ground (CL065-026003-) and some burial continued into the 20th century (http://pwaldron.info/Kilcasheen).

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 7 December 2022

References

Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.

Comber, M. (ed.) 1997 The antiquities of County Clare: John O’Donovan and Eugene Curry: Ordnance Survey Letters 1839. Clasp Press. Ennis.