Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilcasheen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcasheen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.64476, -9.68351
- SMR number
- CL065-026002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within Kilcasheen graveyard (CL065-026----). Westropp (1912, 103) lists ‘Kilcashin’ as having a church and graveyard and later (ibid., 105) notes that ‘Kilcashen, a part of MacMahon’s estates was granted to G. Earl of Kildare in a patent of May, 1601, but the building is not named’. Large (2010) noted and photographed the remains of a rectangular structure.
The low remains of a rectangular structure lying within an undelimited graveyard may be the remains of the church. A length of wall foundation at NW (L 5.6m; Wth 0.8m; max. H 0.5m) is double faced while at NE is a single wall of stones (L also 5.6m) set on edge (largest: H 0.5m; Wth 0.8m; T 0.25m). One set stone (H 0.25m) may be part of the SE wall.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 7 December 2022
References
Westropp, T.J. 1912 Carrigaholt (Co. Clare) and its neighbourhood, part III, Kilcredaun to Ross. North Munster Archaeological Society 2, 103-118.
Large, S. 2011 A church and graveyard survey in County Clare. Database and photographic record. Clare County Council. Clare Heritage Forum. The Heritage Council.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.