Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Sranure, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sranure
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Templekieran (in Ruins), Grave yard
- Coordinates
- 53.19340, -7.29533
- SMR number
- OF026-033001-
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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
Poorly preserved graveyard with no evidence of a church (OF026-033001-) however the wall footings of a building are visible in the N sector of the graveyard. This building is not a church because it is orientated on a N-S axis. The earliest datable gravestone dates to 1795. No other features visible. This burial ground is indicated on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map as 'Killeen Grave Yard'. Test excavation that was undertaken by Dominic Delany under licence no. 01E0431 on the site of a proposed new dwelling at Sranure, Co. Offaly, on 28 May 2001 revealed remains of possible ecclesiastical enclosure (OF026-033002-). The development site lies immediately east of a church site (OF026-033----) and graveyard (OF026-033001-) and there is a holy well (OF026-034----) in the field to the north.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.