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Graveyard

Clone, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Clone, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Clone
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Coordinates
52.56826, -6.50489
SMR number
WX015-023002-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight knoll on a gentle N-facing slope in the valley, with the valley of a S-N stream c. 50m to the E, and c. 700m from where the stream joins the NE-SW River Bann. The Romanesque parish church of Clone (WX015-023001-) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 40m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by masonry walls that were built with stones taken from the church (Anon 1889, 9). There is local knowledge of lintelled graves being found S of the church in ploughing. Two cross-slabs, a sundial and two bullaun stones were in the graveyard. A third cross-slab (WX015-024----) that was on a mound c. 40m to the SE of church was moved to the graveyard, but it has not been seen for some years. One of the cross-slabs (WX015-023006-) and the sundial (WX015-023004-) are now in Tintern abbey (WX045-027001-) for safe-keeping while the church is being repaired. A grave-marker (WX015-023014-) c. 5m W of the doorway has a carving most resembling passage tomb art on its E face.

This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 665.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 28 August, 2018

References

Anon. 1889 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 19. 1-19.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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