What is recorded here

Clonard Old preserves barely more than a corbel on the south tower of its closed 1810 church and a trough cut into bedrock beside the graveyard. That thin remainder leaves St Finnian’s earlier monastery mostly imagined, present only in the shape of what is absent.

There is no evidence of ancient or medieval structures in the graveyard (ME047-007001-) at the site of the parish church of Clonard and the probable site of St Finnian's early monastery (ME047-007----), apart from a face corbel on the S face of the tower of the now closed Church of Ireland church that was built in 1810 and a trough (ME047-007003-) cut in the bedrock just SW of the surviving church. (Wilde 1850, 56-8) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 April, 2015

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