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Church

Ballybrada, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Ballybrada, 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
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----

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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 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

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

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