Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Baile Iarthach Thuaidh (cléire), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Iarthach Thuaidh (cléire)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Graveyard (1902)
- Coordinates
- 51.44073, -9.50607
- SMR number
- CO153-017001-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shown on 2 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1769 "Nieuwe kaart van Ierland / I. Condet sculp." (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On high E-facing slope overlooking north harbour of Cape Clear. Irregular area (31m E-W; 47m N-S) enclosed by stone walls built by Rev. T.J. O'Sullivan - priest in charge of island (Burke 1908, 119). Contains church (CO153-017002-) and seventeenth century gravestones carved by Finin MacGearailt (Walker's Guide to Cape Clear (1989), 7). In use.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.