Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

On a slight rise on a gentle S-facing slope in relatively flat terrain, surrounded by pasture. Tillage in the field to the N. On the 1st (1840) ed. 6-inch OS map the church is depicted with a small semi-circular area running S of the E and W gable of the church defining the graveyard. On the 2nd (1906) ed. 6-inch OS map the graveyard is depicted as a D-shaped area (dims. 54m E-W; 29m N-S) extending S from an E-W field boundary, with the church immediately S of the field boundary. This area is defined by a slight rise in the field. There was no graveyard enclosing the church (TS062-030----) in 1840 (O’Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 75 (197-8)). The present small graveyard (dims. 15.4m E-W; 8.2m N-S), entered via gaps in the S and W walls, is largely a burial plot for the Clancy family, with headstones from the 1860s up to 2002. There is a 20th-century calvary within the graveyard near the S end of the E wall. The walls of the medieval church form part of the enclosing graveyard wall (H 0.8-1.35m; Wth 0.4m). According to local information, skeletal material and gravestones were uncovered many years ago when the field surrounding the present graveyard was ploughed.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 12 August 2013

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.