Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sundial
Clone, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clone
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.56837, -6.50503
- SMR number
- WX015-023004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the graveyard (WX015-023002-) and at the W end of the S wall of the Romanesque church of Clone (WX015-023001-) was the sundial (H 1.18m; Wth of shaft 0.29m; T 0.11m) which has a semicircular head (diam. 0.5m), but its socket (Kinahan 1883-4, 39) is now missing. It was once with the cross-slab (WX015-024----) c. 40m outside the graveyard to the SE (Ffrench 1895, 407). The sundial and the cross-slab (WX015-023006-) were moved to an OPW depot at Tintern Abbey (WX045-027001-) for safe-keeping during Summer 2018 while the church is being repaired, but the sundial is now temporarily on display in the Visitor Centre at Ferns Castle (WX015-003001-).
See the attached view from the National Monuments Service Photographic Archive
This is a National Monument in state ownership: No. 665.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 13 August, 2018
Amended: 13 August, 2019
References
Kinahan, G. H. 1883-4 Notes and queries: Clone, near Ferns, Co. Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 16, 37-9.
Ffrench, Rev. J. F. M. 1895 Excursions in County Wexford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 25, 403-11.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.