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Templetate (monaghan By., Tehallan Par.), County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templetate (monaghan By., Tehallan Par.)
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Cilians Church
- Coordinates
- 54.26862, -6.90462
- SMR number
- MO010-003001-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the S end of a N-S spur. This is the site of the medieval parish church of Tyholland or Tehallen. According to the Tripartite Life of St Patrick, an uncertain source, Patrick established Cillín as a bishop at Tech Taláin (Ó Rian 2011, 175). The church is listed as Thechtalbi in the ecclesiastical taxation (1302-04) of Pope Nicholas IV (Shirley 1879, 289), and the names of some of the priests are known from 1432 (Leslie 1929, 257-8). The church was described as ruinous in Bishop Spottiswood’s visitation of 1622 (McKenna 1920, 1, 290). In 1638 James de la Field of Derryneshallog (Shelvin?) left funds to build a chapel ’20 feet by 16 feet’ to be added to the church but it was probably not constructed (Shirley 1879; Leslie 1929). The church was built anew in 1788 (Lewis 1837, 2, 662) at the N edge of the graveyard. The tower was added in 1827 (Shirley 1879, 308), and St Cilian’s (or Sillian’s) Church of Ireland church continues to this day.
There is no evidence of the medieval church in a D-shaped graveyard (dims c. 80m NNW-SSE; c. 50m ENE-WSW) defined by masonry walls that enclose most of the spur and which has a curved edge at NE where there is a road. Most of the headstones, dating from c. 1800 to the present, are confined to the top of the spur in the area S of the present church, where the medieval church is likely to have been.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Monaghan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 15 November, 2016
References
McKenna, Rev. J. E. 1920 Parochial History of the Diocese of Clogher. 2 vols, Enniskillen, Author
Ó Riain, P. 2011 A dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
Leslie, J.B. 1929 Clogher clergy and parishes. Enniskillen.
Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.