What is recorded here
Clogrenan holds a rectangular graveyard beside the late medieval parish church of Cloydagh, which once answered to the Augustinian Monastery of Great Connall. The connection suggests monks, travellers or local families crossed the Carlow landscape to pray, bury or remember among stones that have stood since before written records became common. That much distance and devotion turns a quiet field into a place where obligation, faith and loss travelled together.
A roughly rectangular graveyard (map dims. c. 32m N-S; c. 73m E-W) with the late medieval parish church (CW007-039001-) of Cloydagh in the NE sector. According to ITA Survey (1945) the church was attached to Augustinian Monastery of Great Connall, Co. Kildare.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 August 2011
A late medieval graveyard associated with an Augustinian parish church; significant as a religious and burial site of the post-medieval period.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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