TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Settlement cluster

Modeshil (Ayre),Modeshil (Sankey), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Settlement cluster, Modeshil (Ayre), Modeshil (Sankey), 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
Modeshil (Ayre),Modeshil (Sankey)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54001, -7.48147
SMR number
TS063-023----

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

In pasture, on an elevated area, just above a 300ft contour. A church and graveyard (TS063-023001- and TS063-023002-) and tower/fortified house (TS063-023003-) form the central point of this settlement cluster. According to the Civil Survey (1654-6), upon the sayd lands is a thacht house with a chimny and 12 cabins without any imp[ro]vement'. James Tobyn of Killaghey Esqr. and Pierce Butler of Callin Esqr. were landowners of Modeshil (Ayre) (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 125). The Down Survey depicts a church and 3 dwellings, one each to E, S and SW. The houses which formed the settlement of Modeshill are not visible at ground level in the vicinity of the church and graveyard. Though the precise location for the medieval settlement at Modeshil is unknown, it is most likely to have centred on the medieval church and graveyard. However, the extent of the settlement is unknown.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 27 July 2015

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Settlement cluster in Tipperary South All County Tipperary South records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map