What is recorded here

Grave Yard in County Clare holds Templecronan church inside triangular stone walls that rise above a damp marsh. People may have chosen the sheltered ground because the land stayed clear when surrounding fields drowned. The plain markers and slab shrines still point toward lives that lived near water, loss and prayer.

Situated in a lowlying well-sheltered area to N and NE of a damp marshy area. A triangular grass-covered area defined by straight well-built roughly coursed walls at NW and NE (at NW: H 1.35m; Wth 0.56m) and a curving uncoursed wall (H 1.3m) at S. A stile gives access midway along the NW wall. The graveyard slopes slightly to the W. Templecronan church (CL010-021002-) lies within and there are two slab shrines, one (CL010-021010-) SE of the church and the second (CL010-021011-) just outside the graveyard wall to the NE. There are two plain gravemarkers (H 0.52m and 0.71m) close to one of the shrines (CL010-021010-) and eight or nine low plain markers to the S and SW of the church. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 17 October 2016

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