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Graveyard

Derry (Dorrha Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Derry (Dorrha Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Derry (Dorrha Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Bonahum Church (in Ruins), Grave Yard
Coordinates
53.12378, -8.04720
SMR number
TN001-013002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise of ground with extensive views. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (Sweetman 1886, vol. 5, 302). In the Civil Survey of Tipperary 1654-6 (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 320) an enclosure around the graveyard is described as enclosing 'three acres belonging to the Parish of Bonocum being situated on ye North by the Churchyard of ye church of Bonocum (TN001-003001-) are fenced about with a ditch' (Simington 1934, vol. 2, 320). An ivy-clad rectangular church (TN001-013001-) in the N sector of a roughly triangular-shaped graveyard (approx. int. dims. 58m N-S; 90m E-W) defined by an earthen bank from W to NW and elsewhere by a stone wall. An architectural fragment consisting of the head of a twin-light ogee-headed window with decorated spandrels is located in the SE sector of the graveyard. Graveyard depicted as a rectangular shaped area with church standing in NE angle of graveyard with laneway immediately to W on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map. Depicted as a triangular-shaped graveyard on the 1901 ed. OSi 25-inch map.

Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload/revision: 12 October 2020

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1934 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. II: county of Tipperary - Western and Northern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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