Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Tipper South, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tipper South
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.20662, -6.62107
- SMR number
- KD019-039----
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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)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a roadside graveyard (KD019-039001-). The poorly preserved remains consist of the ruined, grass-covered lower wall courses and collapsed, overgrown remains of a rectangular nave (int. L c. 14.3m E-W; Wth c. 3.6m) and chancel (dims. L c. 11.5m E-W; Wth 3.6m) structure, which was fortified by a (possibly later) small, densely ivy-clad, almost square, two-storied tower (ext. dims L 6m E-W; Wth 5.6m) attached at W. The tower has a small stair-turret projecting from the E end of its S wall, with no obviously visible access to it at ground level. The ground-floor of the tower has been modified and plastered to form a burial vault, accessed through a red brick doorway from the nave. There is a barrel vault with traces of wicker-work centring above ground-floor level, and opposing corbels in the N and S walls below mark the level of a loft. Evidence of double-splayed loops survive in the W and N walls. Fragments of two window jambs and a fragment of tracery from a twin-light window were found in the graveyard. (McCabe 1996, 108-9)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.