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Graveyard

Crohane Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Crohane 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
Crohane Lower
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
52.56116, -7.59091
SMR number
TS055-041003-

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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

In grassland situated on low rise of ground overlooking small stream to S in upland region with holy well (TS055-041003-) 60m to the NW. 19th-century Church of Ireland church located in N quadrant of rectangular-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 59m N-S; 48m E-W), earlier church (TS055-041001-) fragments of which have been incorporated into the SW angle of the graveyard wall. Window head from a single-light ogee-headed window has been built into the external face of the SW angle of the graveyard wall, other fragments from the medieval church area also visible in the fabric of the graveyard wall. Two fragments of a medieval graveslab (TS055-041005-) were visible as supporting stones for a broken 18th-century memorial, immediately to the S of the C of I church there is a poorly preserved 17th-century graveslab (TS055-041004-) the inscription of which is now worn away. Current clean up scheme has removed the top sod from the graveyard with numerous broken 18th and 19th century headstones lying scattered around the graveyard, all vegetation has been burnt in the SW angle of the graveyard.

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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