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Kilvoydan church, Kilvoydan, Clare

Location
(52°56′50″N, 9°4′18″W)
Kilvoydan
R 28 89
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Clare
now Clare
medieval Killaloe
now Killaloe
medieval not confirmed
  • Tessa Garton

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Feature Sets
Description

A few fragments from the levelled church are in the graveyard, one of which bears Romanesque sculpture.

History

Not recorded. The corbel was found in the 1960s while digging a grave.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

The corbel is similar in design to the corner corbels on the gables of Temple Cronan (Clare). There are similar Romanesque heads in Clare at Tomfinlough and Tomgraney, and a head from Feakle is now in Limerick City Museum.

Bibliography

P. Harbison, 'Some Romanesque Heads from County Clare' , NMAJ, 15 (1972), 3-7.

A. Swinfen, Forgotten Stones; Ancient Church Sites of the Burren and Environs. Dublin 1992, 89-90.

T.J. Westropp, 'The Churches of County Clare, and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county.' PRIA, 22 (1900), 140-41, no.49.