Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Templenaboe, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templenaboe
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templenaboe (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.49573, -6.92614
- SMR number
- CW026-005001-
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University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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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 upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Church reputed to have been built by St Mullin in thanksgiving for abolition of the Boromhu tribute (ITA 1945). Standing in roughly triangular enclosure (max. Wth c. 35m; max. L c. 70m) with original bank visible from SE-S-SW. Lower wall levels of rectangular structure of drystone masonry aligned ESE-WNW (int. dims. 6.5m x 3.3m). Possible entrance in S wall at SW corner. Altar at E end. Reputed to be a children's burial ground.
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Watercourseunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.