Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballybrada, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrada
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Site of Church
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.34777, -7.91854
- SMR number
- TS081-020----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 a W-facing slope in gently rolling terrain generally under pasture.The church is not visible at ground level. Although 'Site of Church' is depicted on the 1st (1840) ed. OS 6-inch map, located close to the W boundary of the graveyard (TS081-020001-), the graveyard was established in 1738 by local Quaker John Fennell on his own estate to provide for members of the Society of Friends (Butler 2006, 156). The uniform gravestones, bearing either no inscription or simply names from local Quaker families, are laid out regularly in straight rows, typical of Quaker graveyards across the country. Power (1908, 21) also refers to the graveyard as belonging to the Quakers. It seems likely that there was never a church at this location.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Butler, D.J. 2006 South Tipperary 1570-1841: religion, land and rivalry. Dublin. Four Courts Press.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.