Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Kilcornan, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcornan
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilcornan Church (in Ruins), Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilcornan Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.49788, -8.30633
- SMR number
- TS058-060001-
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 top of low rise of ground in upland area with good views in all directions. Castle (TS058-040----) 430m to NE and ringfort (TS058-041----) 195m to NE. Not visible at ground level. Described in the OS letters as an 'old church (TS058-060001-) which gave its name to the townland but its walls are now destroyed and grass and weeds are growing over their foundations, which are so effaced that the extent of the building could not be determined. The graveyard is no longer used as a cemetery. This is probably the Cill Churnain mentioned in the Pedigree of the O'Briens as the seat of the race of Torlogh O'Brien, Erenach of Emly' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 9). On the first (1840) edition OS 6-inch map a small circular enclosure around the church is depicted, this is no longer visible on the 1904 ed. OS 6-inch map suggesting that the enclosure was removed between 1840 and 1904.
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
- House - early medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.