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Ecclesiastical enclosure

Johnstown, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Ecclesiastical enclosure, Johnstown, 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
Johnstown
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.94701, -8.25151
SMR number
TN009-040003-

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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 in pasture, on the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge in undulating countryside, on the landscaped demesne of Johnstown House located 300m to NW. The name Killodiernan is translated as the church of O'Tiernan or Cill Ó dTiarnáin, the Cill placename may suggest an early medieval date for the church site (Clyne 1984, 44). Killodiernan Romanesque church (TN009-040001-) stands in N quadrant of D-shaped graveyard (TN009-040002-) with seventeenth-century mortuary chapel containing the chest-tomb (TN009-040004-) of Dean Denis Harty, Bishop of Killaloe who died in 1667 built against the E gable of the church. The graveyard is enclosed by a nineteenth-century wall with eighteenth and nineteenth-century headstones. Traces of a possible early Christian monastic enclosure (diam. NW-SE 200m approx.) surround Killodiernan Church and graveyard which is visible from NE through E to SE. The best-preserved section is visible from E to SE where it consists of an earthen bank (Wth 4m approx.; ext. H 0.15m) and possible inner fosse (Wth 5m; D 0.2m) located 75m to the SE of the modern graveyard wall. The graveyard wall curves from N through E to SE possibly following the line of a second inner ecclesiastical enclosure (Clyne 1984, 46).

See attached plan showing location of monastic enclosure taken from Clyne 1984 and Google Earth orthoimages

Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of revised upload: 13 October 2020

References

Clyne, M. 1984 Romanesque carvings at Killodiernan, Co. Tipperary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 16, 44-53.

Nearby in the register

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

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