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Church

Templenoe (Killeenasteena Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Templenoe (Killeenasteena Par.), 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
Templenoe (Killeenasteena Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.47615, -7.91089
SMR number
TS068-030----

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On the eastern edge of a N-S ridge in undulating terrain, in pasture. Of a rectangular church (dims. 7.4m N-S int.; c. 24.5m E-W ext.), only a portion of the N wall (L 6.2m; int. H 2.6m; ext. H 3.4m; T 0.93m) at the E end, a longer length of the S wall (L 9.35m; int. H 2.6m; ext. H 3.05m; T 0.86m), from the centre to the E end, and a shorter portion (L 3.4m) towards the W end, survive. The upper section of the internal face of the S wall has largely broken away. The church is composed of roughly coursed limestone rubble bonded with a lime mortar. It was entered at the W end of the S wall, though the doorway is completely broken out but there are the remains of a drawbar-hole in the wall on the E side of the opening. The interior is rubble-filled, with collapsed masonry from the church itself but also augmented by field clearance. There is no evidence of an accompanying graveyard. According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 83) the church was in a similar state of preservation c. 1840, with both gables gone and 'Its graveyard is now a potatoe garden'. A circular enclosure (TS068-030001-) visible as a cropmark on satellite imagery (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021), identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère, incorporates the church in the SW quadrant and may be defining an associated graveyard. Also visible on the satellite imagery is a possible larger outer curvilinear enclosure (TS068-030002-).

See attached photograph:
TS068-030----_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 5 July 2021

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

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

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