Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Borrisnafarney, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Borrisnafarney
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (site of), Templeshane Burial Gd.
- Coordinates
- 52.83145, -7.93141
- SMR number
- TN028-020002-
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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 W-facing slope of rising ground in a mountainous region with a nearby ringfort (TN028-021) to the E and a possible ringwork (TN022-058) to the NE. Stout assigns an early medieval date for the church (TN028-0200010 based on the Calendar of Ormond deeds which refers to the 'rectory of the church of Burgagenefarne' in 1364 (Stout 1984, 100; COD, vol. 2, 84). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the place as being without a church or chancel (Murphy 1914, 220). Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The present remains consist of a nineteenth-century graveyard enclosed by modern wall with no visible remains of the church site. According to the OS Letters the graveyard was known locally as St John's church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 84).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.