Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab
Johnstown, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Johnstown
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.94643, -8.25122
- SMR number
- TN009-040005-
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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 in pasture, on the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge in undulating countryside. The name Killodiernan is translated as the church of the O'Tiernans and the Cill placename may suggest an early medieval date for the church site (Clyne 1984, 44). Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). A well-preserved rectangular church (TN009-040001) built with roughly coursed limestone and sandstone rubble. A sandstone slab (L 1.20m; H 0.5m; T 0.08m) now situated lying up against inner face of S wall off centre to E is decorated with three roughly incised circles with a horizontal line running through the three circles. Possible early medieval trial cross-slab.
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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.