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Church

Rathkennan, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Rathkennan, 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
Rathkennan
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church Field
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62870, -7.91254
SMR number
TS046-026----

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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 in flat countryside with good extensive views in all directions. A motte and bailey (TS046-027002-) lies c. 70m, across the road, to the S. In 1452 Holy Cross Abbey was granted Rathkellan vicarage by Archbishop Cantwell (Long 1896, 254) while the Civil Survey refers to the 'street of Rathkienane with its castle and church' (Smyth 1985, 123). The church is depicted on the Down Survey map (1655-6). The field immediately N of the road is marked 'Church Field' on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, with a quarry depicted in the N sector of the field but the church is not indicated. The 25-inch OS map indicates a quarry in the SW portion of the field. The church, the precise location of which within the field is unknown, is not visible at ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Smyth, W. 1985 Property, patronage and population - reconstructing the human geography of mid-seventeenth century County Tipperary. In W. Nolan (ed.), Tipperary: history and society, 104-38. Dublin. Geography Publications.

Long, R. H. Rev. 1896 The old Cistercian abbeys in the Diocese of Cashel and Emly. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaelogical Society 2, 250-56.

Nearby in the register

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

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