Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballyhenry, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhenry
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Burchins Church and graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.90035, -7.82333
- SMR number
- TN017-056001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on a natural hill in undulating hilly terrain. An eighteenth-century Protestant church situated on the highest point in a subrectangular graveyard (TN017-056002). Tombstones date from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the earliest noted being 1772. No earlier features evident in the graveyard although it is referred to in OS Letters as 'ancient Churchyard' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 80-81).
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.