Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Leigh, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leigh
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Leighmore Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Leighmore Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.67047, -7.66862
- SMR number
- TN042-055001-
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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
National Monument No. 266. Small early medieval rectangular church (ext. dims. 5.09m N-S; 8.26m E-W; wall T 0.7m) built with coursed limestone rubble on a protruding basal plinth with rebuilt trabeate W doorway. There are antae protruding from both gable ends with a small single-light round-headed window in the E gable (Leask 1955, 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
References
Leask, H.G. 1955 (Reprint 1977 and 1987) Irish churches and monastic buildings, vol. I. The first phases of the Romanesque. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.