Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Knights Templars
Clonoulty Churchquarter, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonoulty Churchquarter
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- St Johns Church
- Coordinates
- 52.60427, -7.95660
- SMR number
- TS046-048001-
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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
On top of a low rise of ground in gently undulating countryside with a holy well (TS046-049----) c. 220m to the E. Listed as Knights Templars foundation established before 1200 and granted to the Knights Hospitallers after 1314 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 329, 335). According to the OS Letters there was a local tradition that a monastery dedicated to St. John was built on the site, the last fragments of which were levelled by the parish minister around 1800 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 102).There are no surface remains of a church earlier than the existing 19th-century C of I church which is located in the W end of the graveyard. An earlier church is marked on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map further to the E of C of I church in the E end of the graveyard, near the boundary wall of the surviving graveyard. Several graves are now located in this area. There is a 17th-century O'Dwyer memorial plaque (TS046-048005-) in the N wall of the porch of the C of I church. A sheela-na-gig (TS046-048003-) was found in the western part of graveyard during a SES graveyard clean-up scheme in 1989.
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.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.