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Graveyard

Brittas (Thurles Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Brittas (Thurles Par.), County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Brittas (Thurles Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
NULL
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in ruins), Gravey Yd.
Coordinates
52.70861, -7.82059
SMR number
TN041-007001-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in flat pastureland in Brittas Demesne. The church (TN041-007) is situated in the NW angle of a square-shaped graveyard and is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. The W wall of the church (TN041-007) also forms the W wall of the graveyard. The N wall of the graveyard continues on the line of the N wall of the church but is not keyed-in. The graveyard is entered through a round-headed arch in the E wall with engaged pillars on either side. The earliest visible headstone in the graveyard dates to 1782 and commemorates James Sweeney, a worker on the estate. Other gravestones are predominantly Knoxs and Langleys of nineteenth-century date. A number of crude gravemarkers are also present. This appears to be an estate church with no visible evidence of medieval origin. Marked as 'church in ruins' on the 1st ed. (1843) OS 6-inch map, however, there is no entry in the OS Letters.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.

Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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