Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ballycahill (ballycahill Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballycahill (ballycahill Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.68914, -7.90449
- SMR number
- TN040-015002-
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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 fairly level ground sloping gently to the W, in undulating terrain. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Cashel in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 283). A roughly coursed limestone church (TN040-015001) with base-batter; originally a nave and chancel church but no remains of the chancel survive. In c. 1840 a length of the N chancel wall survived along with a very small fragment of the S wall (Wth. of chanceL. A pointed doorway in the S wall gives access to the nave with a double-hole machicolation over the doorway. The Church forms the N boundary of the large rectangular shaped graveyard.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.