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Kilclehaun Grave Yd.

Burial ground

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Kilclehaun Grave Yd. is a small burial ground in County Clare, Ireland, holding about twenty recumbent headstones and a central holy well. It sits in the corner of a field on a gentle southeast-facing slope, enclosed partly by masonry and partly by drystone walls. The place has stood at the edge of ordinary farmland for generations, marking death and prayer in the same breath.
In the corner of a field on a gentle SE-facing slope. Listed as 'Graveyard' in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). A subrectangular area (int. dims. 26m NW-SE; 22m NE-SW) defined by a masonry wall at NW and NE and a drystone wall on the other sides. It contains c. 20 recumbent headstones, some uninscribed and some with 20th-century dates. A holy well (CL038-026002-) is at the centre. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 April 2020

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