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Alleen (Ryan) (Rathlynin Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Alleen (Ryan) (Rathlynin Par.), 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
Alleen (Ryan) (Rathlynin Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Templemacduagh
Latest-edition OS map
Templemacduagh (Site of)
Coordinates
52.53039, -8.09891
SMR number
TS059-024001-

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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

In improved pasture, on a NE-facing slope, just above a steep break of slope. The church is not visible at ground level. It is depicted on the 1840 ed. OS 6-inch map as a rectangular building (dims. 13m ESE-WNW; 4.5m NNE-SSW) named 'Templemacduagh'. A holy well (TS059-024002-) named 'Tobarmacduagh' is depicted c. 10m to the S. There are numerous undulations in the field but nothing discernible. A large mature beech tree in the area of the church is within a gentle hollow which may have formed as a result of root activity. Lush grass and nettles surround the base of the tree. According to O'Flanagan (1930, 253), 'In the townland of Alleen-Ryan is the site of the old Church called Teampull Mhic Duach and near it a holy well called Tobar Mhic Duach…'. The area is not known of locally as a church site, but a wooded area nearby to the ESE is reputed to have been a 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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