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Graveyard

Monearmore, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Monearmore, 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
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-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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