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Cluain
Community excavations around the Wexford church revealed several phases of enclosure.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cluain · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Clone · English · main form
Place & story
Investigating the surrounding field
Clone church stands in Clone townland within the civil parish of the same name in County Wexford. Denis Shine’s excavation report records community digs in December 2019 and August 2021, supported by geophysical surveys. Four cuttings were excavated and backfilled. The investigations established that the church stood within a much larger early medieval monastic complex, rather than an isolated burial ground. [2] [3]
Different periods of enclosure
A small oval ditch was dated to the fifth to early sixth century. The main monastic enclosure ditches had evidence of backfilling during the seventh to ninth centuries, while the outermost ditch was not finally filled until the eleventh to thirteenth century. These dates concern excavated features and their infilling; they do not date all surviving church masonry to the earliest phase. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Wexford
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Coordinates
- 52.54199, -6.50348
- Mapped area
- 24.55 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2538 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- 2021:787 Clone, Wexford, licence19E0766 · Denis Shine, Irish Heritage School; Excavations.ie
- Clone townland, canonical hierarchy · Placenames Database of Ireland
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.