What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands at the heart of an ancient Clare enclosure, its rectangular stone boundary holding a ruined church and markers spanning a century. Westropp believed the wall consumed stones from the larger ecclesiastical structure, turning a sacred boundary into a burial limit. That transformation suggests a community reshaping holy space for death itself, perhaps freeing room for life or claiming dominance over memory. The underground passage nearby deepens the mystery, inviting imagination about what hidden hands built beneath the visible graveyard.

At the centre of a large early ecclesiastical enclosure (CL017-094001-). Marked and labelled ‘Graveyard’ on both the first (1842) and Cassini (1916) editions of the OS 6-inch map. Westropp (1915, 272) suggested that the graveyard wall was built with stone robbed out from the ecclesiastical enclosure wall. A rectangular graveyard (int. dims. L 35m E-W; Wth 30m N-S) is defined by a mortared stone wall (H c. 1.2m) and is accessed through a gate at the S end of the E wall leading from a gap in the ecclesiastical enclosure wall outside. A ruined church (CL017-094002-) stands at the centre and, in 1999, the legible gravemarkers dated from c. 1890 to 1990. A Man-made underground passage (CL017-094004-) is located c. 25m to the SE. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Eve Campbell Date of upload: 21-10-2025

Early medieval Christian burial ground, associated with a monastic site; significant as a rare example of a continuously recorded ecclesiastical enclosure from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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