Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Chapel
Curraghaviller, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curraghaviller
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.83122, -8.42535
- SMR number
- TN019-048----
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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 low natural rock outcrop at the N end of a low N-S ridge in a mountain valley, overlooked by higher ground on all sides. The site consists of a section of a drystone field wall (H 1.1m; T 0.5m; L 22m) extending N-S across the top of a low ridge which according to local knowledge is the site of a penal chapel. This appears to be the remains of an old field boundary with no evidence of any cut stone or building material for a building. In the Archbishop's Visitation of Ballina in 1752 it is recorded that there was a chapel in the mountain which local people believe to have been located at this site (Griffin and Griffin 2000, 62).
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 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.