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Graveyard

Lorrha, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Lorrha, 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
Lorrha
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins), Grave yd.
Coordinates
53.09149, -8.12091
SMR number
TN004-010013-

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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

In the Annals of Innisfallen under the year AD 1037 it is recorded that 'Cu Chaille, son of Cennetaig, King of Musgraige, with his son was slain in front of the stone church at Lorrha after he had been taken from the altar. The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as 'chancell up church down' (Murphy 1914, 221). The church consists of a rectangular building (TN004-010008-) with projecting antae at both ends constructed with roughly coursed cyclopean masonry. The W end of the church was converted into a two-storey priest's residence by the insertion of a barrel-vaulted ground floor. This is possibly an eleventh-century church or earlier as referred to in the Annals of Innisfallen with a late twelfth/early thirteenth-century doorway. Further work was carried out in the 15th/16th century when the priest's residence and later doorway were inserted. Church located in the E quadrant of a large sub-rectangular graveyard which contains two high crosses (TN004-010009-/010-) in the centre and in the NW quadrants respectively.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008

References

Ann. Inisf. - The Annals of Innisfallen (MS Rawlinson B 503), ed. and trans. Seán Mac Airt, (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1951)

Murphy, A.M. and Ormond, W. 1914 The Royal Visitation, 1615, Diocese of Killaloe. Archivium Hibernicum 3, 210-25.

Nearby in the register

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

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