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Graveyard

Blackcastle (Inishlounaght Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveyard, Blackcastle (Inishlounaght 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
Blackcastle (Inishlounaght Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Grave Yard
Latest-edition OS map
Grave Yd.
Coordinates
52.38332, -7.83094
SMR number
TS076-047001-

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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 SW-facing slope in undulating terrain, surrounded by rough meadow. Moorstown tower house (TS076-039001-) and bawn (TS076-039002-) visible c. 500m uphill to NNE. Church (TS076-047----) is roughly centrally placed within a small, slightly irregular rectangular graveyard (dims. 40m N-S; 39m E-W). Stone wall with wrought iron gate and stile in E wall. Another architectural frag. on S side of the graveyard W of the last NW row of headstones. It is a jamb (dims. 0.35m x 0.5m; chamfer 0.09m). All legible headstones and others based on their form are 19th and 20th-century date, all N of church. Line of trees along inside N wall of graveyard have been cut. S boundary is defined by hedge with steep earthen bank to S which is also a townland boundary.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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