Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

On raised ground on summit of hill in undulating pasture-land. Church (TS076-016002-) roughly centrally placed within graveyard. Laneway from road which runs roughly N-S to W of church, provides access to graveyard. Entered at S end of W side of polygonal graveyard (dims. 48m N-S; 56m E-W). Graveyard may formerly have been more circular in shape as a curving bank (Wth 1.3m crest, 2.6m base; H above int. 0.75m; H above ext. 0.67m) survives outside the present NW boundary (dims. of additional area 13m N-S; 35.5m roughly E-W) with a entrance (Wth 2.1m) in NW. This is clearly visible on aerial photographs (ASIAP (36) 23 and 25). According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 140-41) 'there is here still a burial ground, not enclosed, with a stone wall'. There are a number of 18th-century headstones in the graveyard, the earliest legible dates to 1737 and is S of the W end of the church. E of the church there is a 16th/17th-century graveslab (TS076-016005-).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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.