Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Seanchluain, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Seanchluain
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- G. Yd
- Coordinates
- 52.04871, -7.58427
- SMR number
- WA036-008002-
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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
Located towards the bottom of a N-facing slope. The parish church of Ringagoragh (WA036-008001-) is within a rectangular graveyard defined by masonry walls (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 45m N-S), although the graveyard is extended to the W and S (dims c. 100m E-W; c. 60m N-S). Archaeological testing (05E0329) over a large area (dims. c. 180m N-S; c. 160m E-W) immediatel S of the graveyard failed to produce any related material (Janesa). (Power 1898a, 199)
Janes, T. (2008e) Shanacloon: No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 364, No. 1499. Wordwell. Dublin.
Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Date of upload: 6th Octiber, 2011
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Nearby in the register
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Moundunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.