What is recorded here

Grave Yard at Rathborney, County Clare, holds the dead inside a curved modern wall where an old ecclesiastical enclosure still shapes the land. Some graves cluster near the church, others sit within it, and one was cut into the end of a hidden underground passage, as if the living wanted the dead to keep walking with them. A worn bullaun stone lies just outside the boundary, perhaps marking water, prayer or memory long before the first readable name appeared in 1800.

Attached to the W and SW of Rathborney church (CL005-027002-). The graveyard is defined by straight modern walls along the W and N and by a curved modern wall E-SW (overall dims. c. 75m E-W; c. 48m N-S). The rath or ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-) occupies most of this enclosed area. Graves are spread throughout the graveyard as well as within the church. Gravemarkers include headstones, flat slabs, reused masonry from the church as well as simple plain gravemarkers and occasional square-headed crosses. The earliest decipherable inscription dates to 1800. At least one grave was inserted into the ESE end of a Man-made underground passage (CL005-027004-) within the ecclesiastical enclosure (CL005-027001-). There is a bullaun stone (CL005-027005-) within the graveyard 18m SSW of the church and just outside the ecclesiastical enclosure. Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Ros Ó Maoldúin Date of upload: 26 January 2022

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