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Graveyard

Camus (st. Patricksrock Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

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Townland: Camus (st. Patricksrock Par.)
County: Tipperary South
Country: Ireland
First-edition OS map: Killeen Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map: Killeen Grave Yard (Disused)
Coordinates: 52.53463, -7.93624
SMR number: TS060-030003-

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In improved pasture, in highest part of field, at terminus of broad ridge (general long axis NNE-SSW). Flood plain of River Suir in field to N and W. Associated with a church (TS060-030001-). Sub-rectangular area (dims. 28m NNE-SSW; 10m ESE-WNW) defined by well defined scarp (Wth 6.5-8m; H 0.7-0.75m) on WSW, NNE, ENE-sides and a slightly levelled scarp (Wth 3m; H 0.25m) at SSW-side. There is a levelled linear bank (long axis ESE-WNW) (overall Wth 7.5m; Wth at top 2.5m; H 0.15-0.35m; L 18m) extending from NE-angle to E. This terminates at a low outer scarp which defines a wider area around the graveyard. This entire area is defined by an enclosure (dims. 102m NNE-SSW; 58m ESE-WNW) consisting of a levelled bank reduced to scarp (Wth 3.25m; H 0.45m) NW-NE and scarp (Wth 2m; H 0.25m) NE-SE. Existing trackway flanks upper edge of scarp NE-SE. Fosse (overall Wth 4.9-6.75m; basal Wth 1.5m; D 0.1-0.2m) NW-NE and traceable NE-ESE. Low outer bank (overall Wth 4.1m; Wth at top 1.2m; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 0.15m) and fosse ENE-ESE merges into inner scarp at SE. Broad, natural ridge to SSE of monument and a natural scarp defines SW-NW. According to OS Letters (1840), the graveyard (TS060-030003-) was no longer in use except as a children's burial ground (TS060-030002-) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 118-19 (314). Cahill (1982) states that this is the 'site of a church and disused graveyard enclosed by a barely visible sub-rectangular earthwork'. According to Meskell (2003, 16) land reclamation work in the mid 1980s removed all traces of the graveyard. At the time of the reclamation quantities of stone and human bones were uncovered (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 July 2014

References

Meskell, P. 2003 Killeen Graveyard, Camus. Boherlahan-Dualla Historical Journal, 15-16. Boherlahan-Dualla Historical Journal Society.

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.

Cahill, M. 1982 The archaeology of the Barony of Middlethird, Co. Tipperary. Unpublished M. A. thesis.

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