Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Graffan, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graffan
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.91593, -7.99775
- SMR number
- OF044-011003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a natural rise in undulating countryside with 17th-century house (OF044-011001-) to the W. Only the S wall survives of this nave and chancel church (OF044-011002-) with the wall footings of the N wall barely visible. The church is located in the centre of a graveyard which contains 18th/19th-century headstones enclosed by a modern stone wall.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.