Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killemly, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killemly
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS075-067----
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The National Monuments Service's description
Mentioned in the Papal Chancery Documents in 1210 and 1260 as 'Kilimelach' and 'Killyinlach' respectively and in the Extents of Irish Monastic Possessions in 1541 as 'Kylhemelagh/Kylehemenagh' (Ó Cearbhaill 2007, 148). According to Power (1908, 26), in Killemly townland there is a 'Cill Eimligh (or Imilligh) - “Church of the Lough Brink.” The site was discovered, with difficulty, by east side of the Cahir-Cashel road'. This church remains unlocated within this townland.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Ó Cearbhaill, P. 2007 Logainmneacha na hÉireann II: Cill i logainmneacha Co. Thiobraid Árann. The Stationery Office. Dublin.