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Graveyard

Urard, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Urard, County Tipperary South, 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
Urard
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard, Church (in Ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.70666, -7.57678
SMR number
TS043-005004-

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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

On top of high ground with good views in all directions, nearby hall house (TS043-005002-) located 200m to the NE. Church (TS043-005001-) now incorporated into farmyard outhouse which the landowner believes is the church building itself. No surface remains of graveyard which is indicated on first ed. OS 6-inch map located to the S and W of the church. The OS Letters mentions an old church and graveyard located in the area marked on the OS 6-inch map (O'Flanagan, vol. 1, 160).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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