2008:136 - QUINGARDENS, Clare

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Clare

Site name: QUINGARDENS

Sites and Monuments Record No.: CL042–02703 and CL042–02704

Licence number: C289; E3931; R120

Author: Edel Ruttle, TVAS (Ireland) Ltd.

Author/Organisation Address: Ahish, Ballinruan, Crusheen, Co. Clare

Site type: Ecclesiastical enclosure and Graveyard

Period/Dating: Late Medieval (AD 1100-AD 1599)

ITM: E 541713m, N 674540m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.818676, -8.864722

Testing in advance of the construction of an extension to the parochial hall located the probable earlier boundary ditch of St Fineen’s graveyard and examined the skeletal remains of a least two persons buried at the earliest in the 16th century.