Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Newtown Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown Lower
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Church (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.39137, -7.39837
- SMR number
- TS079-015001-
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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 flat ground enclosed by a rectangular stone-walled graveyard (TS079-015003-). The Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'a little Church unroofed' in 'Newtownelennane' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 262). Constructed of sandstone rubble roughly coursed, this 13th-century church (int. dims. 8.27m x 15.52m; W wall T 1.08m; S wall T 0.84m; H c. 4m), orientated E-W, is overgrown with scrub and the walls are heavily ivy clad. The N wall is leaning outwards and most of the outer face of the W end of the N wall has collapsed and lies in a rubble heap at the base of the wall. There is a small buttress at the W end of the N wall and slight base-batter on the E wall (H 1.2m, Wth 0.25m). The church has two doorways, one at the W end of the S wall and another at the N end of the W wall. Both doorways have been modified. The S doorway has a slate lintel which is a re-used graveslab (TS079-015006-). The church is lit by two windows in the N wall, one broken out, the other round headed; three flat-headed windows in the S wall with traces of diagonal tooling and a triple-light lancet window (H 3.5-4m) in the E gable with moulded sandstone surrounds. The E and W lancets are blocked up with sandstone. At the E end of the S wall there is a pointed-headed piscina with moulded surrounds and flat-headed aumbry with crude sandstone surrounds. At the E end of the N wall there is a pointed aumbry with moulded sandstone surround though only the internal roll-moulding survives intact. Lying at the E end of the church interior are three fragments of a graveslab (TS079-015007-). A sheela-na-gig (TS079-015002-) from the church was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1968 (Lucas 1971, 232).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Lucas, A.T and Raftery, J. et al. 1971 Archaeological acquisitions in 1968. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 101, 184-244.
Nearby in the register
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.