Church

The National Monuments Service's description

In undulating terrain, on ground sloping to N, in pasture. The church is located centrally within the graveyard (TS060-059007-), and along the N side of a roughly square raised area (dims. 18m N-S; 21m E-W) defined by scarp (H 0.4m) which mostly extends S of the church. This nave and chancel church, aligned E-W, is composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. The chancel was destroyed in 1821 when an enclosed stone-walled burial plot (dims. 4.9m x 7.1m) was built, containing a funerary monument above a vault for the Butler family (White 1892, 8; O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 91-2 (248-9)). The surviving masonry consists of a length of the W gable (ext. L 3.75m; T 0.8m) extending from the SW angle, the S wall of the nave (ext. L 8.5m) and a short return of the E wall (T 0.8m) of the nave at the SE angle. There is a window opening near the E end of the S wall of the nave and a broken-out area towards the W end of this wall may have contained another window. A broken quernstone is incorporated in the masonry near the base of the W gable and a fragment of a stone tile was found near the W gable. The foundations of a possible house (TS060-059011-) within an enclosure (TS060-059008-) is located in a field known locally as 'the church field' c. 60m to the W.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

White, J.D. 1892 Anthologia Tipperariensis. Cashel.

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.