Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Gortroe (connello Lower By.), County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortroe (connello Lower By.)
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd. (1923)
- Coordinates
- 52.37739, -8.72460
- SMR number
- LI046-023003-
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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
On W side of road. immediately N of holy well (LI046-023001-). Roughly rectangular graveyard (c. 50m NW-SE; c. 40m SW-NE) enclosed by stone wall on NE side with entrance gate and style, by concrete wall on NE side beyond which is recent extension to graveyard, by stream to SW and by field boundary to NW. Just W-of-centre is ruin of Cloncoura parish church (LI046-023002-). Most recent burials to N and NW of church ruin, with older headstones E and SE of ruin, though this area overgrown by brambles and ivy; earliest headstone noted dated 1801.
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.