Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Monearmore, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monearmore
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.51152, -8.27599
- SMR number
- TS058-025001-
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
On a natural rise of ground with good views in all directions. Castle (TS058-028----) located 270m to NE, holy well (TS058-027----) 177m to NE and second well (TS058-026----) 120m to N. Rectangular-shaped graveyard (int. dims. 38m N-S; 47m E-W) enclosed by a rubble sandstone and limestone wall (H 1.5-2.5m; wall T 0.5m) containing 18th and 19th century memorials. Protestant church, on site of earlier church (TS058-025----), located in N quadrant of graveyard as indicated on first (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map. According to the OS letters there were several lime trees of great age one of which measured nine and a half feet/3m in diameter (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 9). No lime trees are visible in the graveyard.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.