Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballyhenry, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyhenry
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. Burchins Church and graveyard
- Coordinates
- 52.90041, -7.82330
- SMR number
- TN017-056002-
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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
Located on a natural hill in undulating hilly terrain. An eighteenth-century Protestant church situated on the highest point in a subrectangular graveyard . 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).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 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.