Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Loughkeen, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughkeen
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ch. (in Ruins), Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.04635, -7.97511
- SMR number
- TN008-058001-
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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 a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside. The poorly preserved remains of an ivy-covered rectangular building (dims. 9m N-S; 18m E-W; wall T 0.9m) built with uncoursed red sandstone rubble. Only the N, S and E walls survive with the interior of the church inaccessible due to the presence of a burial vault and dense overgrowth. The graveyard (TN008-058002) enclosing the church contains eighteenth/nineteenth-century headstones. The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as a ' church and chancell well repayred' (Murphy 1914, 221).
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - hall-houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.