Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Kilfeakle, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfeakle
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Kilfeakle Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Kilfeakle Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.49827, -8.07227
- SMR number
- TS059-142----
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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 improved pasture, on a low rise. According to the OS Letters 'An elevation where the walls stood still remains and shows their foundation, from which it appears the building was forty feet [12m] in length by six[t]een feet [4.9m] in breadth. The scythe shaved grass off this very spot this season, the ground around it being used as meadow ground. There is not the slighest appearance of a burying place or of any graves here' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 101). The name 'Kilfeakle' refers to the church of the tooth, as supposedly St. Patrick's tooth fell out in the nearby ford and was kept as a relic in the church (ibid.). The land is slightly uneven across this area of the field, but there are no definitive features. A field boundary (long axis E-W) to the W of the monument has been removed. There is no visible trace of this church above ground level.
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
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.