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Graveyard

Turraheen Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Turraheen Lower, 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
Turraheen Lower
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Kyleturraheen
Latest-edition OS map
Kyleturraheen
Coordinates
52.64847, -8.01614
SMR number
TS046-002003-

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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 a natural hillock on a N-facing slope of rising ground in an upland area overlooking Turraheen river valley to the N. There is a holy well (TS046-003----) c. 600m to the ESE. The graveyard occupies a natural hillock, the base of which is enclosed by an earthen bank (Wth 1.7m; base wth 2.5m; int. H 0.25-0.5m; ext. H 0.6-1m) with an inner fosse (Wth 1.7m) delimiting a D-shaped area (L at S 50m E-W; diam. approx. 38m NE-SW) which is truncated by a modern roadway at S on an E-W axis. The hill rises to a summit inside the enclosure with traces of the wall-footings of a possible church (TS046-002001-) and possible bullaun stone or stoup (046-002004-). Low rows of umarked orthostats orientated on a N-S axis in the E sector of the enclosure may represent the headstone of unbaptised children (046-002002-) or may represent the graveyard (046-002003-) associated with the church.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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