Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Graystown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Graystown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 52.56136, -7.71198
- SMR number
- TS054-039001-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In grassland on high ground known locally as Scornan hill (Clutterbuck 2000, 157) with good views in all directions. Nearby tower house (TS054-037002-), bawn (TS054-037001-) and deserted settlement (TS054-037----) 380m to NW. Church (TS054-039001-) located at S end of sub- rectangular graveyard (approx. dims. 53m N-S x 36m E-W) as indicated on first ed. OS 6-inch map. The graveyard is defined by an earth and stone bank reduced to a low scarp (H 0.5m) visible from SE to E only elsewhere it has been levelled with low rock outcrop protruding above surface of ground immediately around the church which may indicate burial markers. Described in the OS letters as a burial ground but no headstones with inscriptions (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 176).
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.
Clutterbuck, R. 2000 Graystown - a later medieval settlement near Fethard. Tipperary Historical Journal, 157-72.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.