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Church

Rochestown, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Rochestown, 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
Rochestown
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Rochestown Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Rochestown Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.33113, -7.89966
SMR number
TS081-042001-

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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 the E edge of a natural rise in undulating terrain, in a small wooded area, the church is centrally placed within a rectangular graveyard (TS081-042003-). The River Suir is located c. 300m to the W, and a tower house (TS082-055001-) c. 300m to the SE. The church (ext. dims. 15.75m x 8.4m), aligned E-W, is built of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with good dressed quoins. Both gables survive in good condition (E gable T 1.05m; H 5m above ext.; W gable H c. 5.5m to apex). The N wall (max. H 1.16m above ext.) is in a precarious state, mostly collapsed, while the S wall (T 0.84m; max. H 1.25) has also largely collapsed. A gap roughly W of centre in the S wall is probably the original position of the doorway. A sheela-na-gig (TS081-042002-) was formerly located in the E wall of the church. The E window is a simple ogee-headed single-light, rebated internally in a splayed, flat-headed embrasure. It is chamfered externally, has hollow spandrels, pocked tooling and drafted margins. There is an aumbry (Wth 0.42m; D 0.55m; H 0.47m) at the E end of the S wall. There are late 18th-century gravestones within the church. Six architectural fragments (TS081-042004- to TS081-042009-) were identified in the graveyard, re-used as grave-markers, all situated S of the church. Two of the fragments are door jambs and two are from the arch of the doorway.

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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