Church

The National Monuments Service's description

At the base of a N-facing slope in a small valley which runs E-W, within a graveyard (TS077-085001-), near the southern boundary. References to this church appear as early as 1210 and 1260 as 'Kilcronete' and 'Kilcronactan' respectively in the Pontificia Hibernica (Ó Cearbhaill 2007, 107). Futher references to 'Kilcrone' and 'Killcronyth' appear in the Papal Tax records and the diocesan records of Lismore in 1306 and 1499 respectively (ibid.) and from 1539-40 to 1615 it appears as various forms of Kilgrant in the Inquisitions of Tipperary, the Calendar of Fiants, the Irish patent rolls and the Royal Visitation records (ibid. 107-8). The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to the 'Church of Killgrant' with one and a half acres of the three acres of glebeland being situated E of the church and fenced with a ditch (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 285). The nave (int. dims. c. 5.2m N-S; c. 8m E-W; wall T 0.7m; W wall int. H 0.58m; ext. H 0.55m) and chancel (int. dims. 4.8m E-W) church, aligned E-W, is defined by low walls overgrown with grass. Only a short length of upstanding wall survives, at the E end of the S wall of the nave, very badly overgrown with ivy. The church is divided by a cross-wall (T 0.7m). There is a possible entrance (Wth 1.3m) in the N wall of the nave. The OS Letters refer to a 'semicircular doorway constructed of chiselled red sandstone' (Wth 1.2m; H 1.9m) in part of the S wall, only 4.5m length of which then survived upstanding (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 147).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Ó Cearbhaill, P. 2007 Logainmneacha na hÉireann II: Cill i logainmneacha Co. Thiobraid Árann. The Stationery Office. Dublin.

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.

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.