TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Church

Tomard Lower (3 Detached portions), County Carlow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Tomard Lower (3 Detached portions), County Carlow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Tomard Lower (3 Detached portions)
County
Carlow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Bridgets Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
St. Bridgets Church (in Ruins), Graveyard
Coordinates
52.76806, -6.98076
SMR number
CW012-022001-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of revision: 21 December 2009
Revised by: J. Farrelly

Centrally positioned within a sub-square graveyard (CW012-022003-), the present remains consist of lower courses of N and S walls (H c. 1m) and E gable of simple rectangular structure recently rebuilt. Aligned ENE-WSW (c. 16.6m x 6.5m), of roughly coursed limestone, sandstone and split rubble with limestone quoins. Narrow ope with chamfered limestone jambs and sill and reconstructed rear arch in E gable. Rectangular cupboard (6.45m x 0.40m) inside S wall by E gable. Circular granite font now stands in nave. No indications of doorway and ope in S wall mentioned by O'Donovan (OSL 1839, 27). Holy well (CW012-067----) 150m to E.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Church in Carlow All County Carlow records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map