Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Portland, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portland
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 53.09000, -8.17532
- SMR number
- TN004-008003-
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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
Situated on high ground in undulating countryside with extensive views. A rectangular late medieval church (TN004-008001) with a barrel-vaulted priest's chamber at the W end of church. The walls are constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble with base-batter at the W end to support the barrel vault of the priest's chamber. According to local tradition the graveyard (TN004-008002) was located to the S of the church and was used as a burial ground until the early 1800s. All that survives of the graveyard is a slight scarp possibly indicating the graveyard boundary. There are no remains of any burial markers in the area to the S of the church. According to Gleeson (1951-2, 105) the church was a chantry rather than a parish church possibly associated with the MacEgan family and the graveyard, which was gone in his time, was used as a place for burying unbaptised children.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape featureunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.