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
- 53.58230, -8.00672
- SMR number
- LF021-048023-
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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 inside the monastic cashel (LF021-048----) was recorded in 1860, when Gordon Hills (1860, 340) wrote that; ‘the beautiful greensward around the eastern group [of churches] cannot be dug without bringing to light evidences of a graveyard’. No inscribed gravemarkers or headstones are visible today, and there are no surface remains visible of any enclosed burial ground inside the monastic cashel. It is possible that some of the low cairns visible inside the monastic cashel represent burial sites. Bigger (1900) described the presence of ‘heaps of stone so numerous on the island, which probably represent graves, as it is a usual custom to cover graves with stones, and carn burial is still a favourite custom’. The vault depicted in the E quadrant of the enclosure on the 1836 ed. OSi 6-inch map may be related to this burial ground.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 February 2023
References
Bigger, F.J. 1900 Inis Chlothrann (Inis Cleraun) Lough Ree: its history and antiquities. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 69-89.
Hills, G. M. 1860 Innisclothran, and other island churches in Ireland. The Ecclesiologist vol. 21, no. CXLI, December, 331-40.
Nearby in the register
- Leachtunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.