Church

The National Monuments Service's description

In grassland on top of a natural rise of ground surrounded on three sides by Derryvella Bog with good views in all directions. According to Gwynn and Hadcock (1988, 33) this was the site of the Early Christian monastery of Daire Mór which was associated with Bishop Colman, however, recent research has identified the church at Longfordpass North (TN042-025----) in North Tipperary with Daire Mór and not Derryvella as once speculated (Manning 1997). O'Donovan associated the monastery with Doire Meille founded by St Tigernach whose feast day was on the 4th of November and was regarded as the second oldest churchyard in Ireland and one which the pope is obliged to mention once a year (O'Flanagan 1930, vol.1, 159). Church is enclosed by an ecclesiastical enclosure (TS048-035003-). All that remains of the church are some grass-covered stones barely protruding above the surface of the ground, no visible remains of any grave markers or headstones inside enclosure.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Manning, C. 1997 Daire Mór idenitified. Peritia 11, 359-69.

Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.

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.