Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Masterstown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Masterstown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Masterstown Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Masterstown Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.44196, -7.93493
- SMR number
- TS068-103----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On level ground in gently undulating terrain, surrounded by tillage. The church (diams. Overall 20m E-W; 7.75m N-S; wall T 0.85m) is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble. A length of the S wall (L 8m) survives to a height of 3m above ext., while the W gable survives to a height of 1.15m above ext. towards the NW corner but is reduced to two courses high towards the S. A portion of the E gable survives towards the S end, two courses high (H 0.46m). The SE angle is robbed out. The N wall is not evident but the lower courses may survive under the dense overgrowth of grass and nettles. The interior of the church is built up with rubble and is heavily overgrown with grass and nettles. On satellite imagery (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021), identified by Jean-Charles Caillère, there is a possible ecclesiastical enclosure (TS068-103004-) consisting of two curvilinear cropmark enclosures, one immediately surrounding the church and an outer roughly D-shaped enclosure which extends S and W of the inner enclosure. Three other enclosures, also visible as cropmarks, are in the immediate vicinity, TS068-152---- c. 50m to the NE, TS068-103002- c. 50m to the S and TS068-103001- c. 10m to the W.
See attached photograph:
TS068-103----_01 Satellite image (2021 Maxar Technologies, viewed May 2021)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 30 June 2021
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.