Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burial ground
Inchcleraun, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inchcleraun
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58430, -8.01202
- SMR number
- LF021-046001-
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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
The presence of a burial ground surrounding the Belfry Church (Clogas) (LF021-046----) was recorded in 1860, when Gordon Hills (1860, 340) wrote that; ‘about the Belfry Church the surface of the ground still bears palpable marks of former interments’. The square-shaped area (dims. c. 36m NE-SW x 39m SE-NW) enclosed by a wall built around 1882-3 by the Board of Works when carrying out repairs on the Belfry Church may partially enclose the burial ground which was described in 1860. A smaller rectangular-shaped area (dims. c. 19m N-S x 30m E-W) depicted to the north and east of the church on the 1836 ed. OSi 6-inch map may represent the burial ground described in 1860. On this map the Belfry Church forms the SW corner of the small rectangular shaped enclosure. Slight undulations in the surface of the ground to the E of the church may represent burial plots. No inscribed grave-markers and no headstones are visible.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 February 2023
References
Hills, G. M. 1860 Innisclothran, and other island churches in Ireland. The Ecclesiologist vol. 21, no. CXLI, December, 331-40.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.