What is recorded here

Grave yard is a small semicircular graveyard beside a medieval church in County Clare, Ireland. It is hardly visible now, but grass-covered stones and uninscribed headstones still mark where people were laid to rest. Local tradition says children were buried there within living memory, giving the quiet place a tender and unsettling edge.

Situated immediately to the S of a medieval church (CL010-087002-), in the S centre of an ecclesiastical enclosure (CL010-087001-). Indicated by a broken line and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1842 and 1920 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. This graveyard is hardly traceable, comprising a roughly semicircular area (c. 13m ENE-WSW; c. 6.5m NNW-SSE) of grass-covered stones and uninscribed headstones. Swinfen (1992, 134) recounted a local tradition that children were buried here up to 40-50 years before her time of writing. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 13 June 2023

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