What is recorded here
This early ecclesiastical site consists of a sub-rectangular modern graveyard (DG012-002011-) enclosing Clonca Old Church (DG012-002001-). The surviving rectangular gabled church is a seventeenth century building incorporating earlier fragments. It was built post 1622 and continued in use until 1827 (Leslie 1937, 155;…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record DG012-002008
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