What is recorded here

Grave Yard stands on a rocky knoll in Kilcorney Valley, County Clare, where a medieval church still occupies the east half and uninscribed graves stretch south beneath a mortared stone wall. A decorated Romanesque window head, torn from the church gable, now marks one grave, turning sacred architecture into a boundary for death. The irregular plot has watched the valley since at least 1842, keeping quiet company with pasture, road traffic and the living who pass its western gateway.

In pastureland on a rocky knoll on the floor of Kilcorney Valley. Indicated and named ‘Grave Yard’ on the 1842 and 1916 eds. of the OS 6-inch map. A medieval church (CL009-028002-) occupies its E half. This graveyard (c. 34m E–W; c. 30m N–S), irregular in plan, lies immediately to the S of a WNW-ESE running road. It is enclosed by a mortared stone wall and access is gained through a gateway at the W end of the N wall; there is also a style in the wall to the W of the gateway. Most of the graves, some of which are uninscribed, are located to the S of the church but a number of more modern graves are visible to its W. Swinfen (1992, 35) and Coffey (1993, 68) noted that a decorated Romanesque window head that was formerly located in the E gable of the church has been reused as grave-marker. Apart from the moulded stone noted on the ground outside the doorway of the church, a number of other architectural fragments have been recorded by Large (2011) at various locations within the graveyard. (Comber 1997, 76) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 December 2021

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