Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Rochestown, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rochestown
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 52.33118, -7.89970
- SMR number
- TS081-042003-
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 the E edge of a natural rise in undulating terrain, the River Suir is located c. 300m to W. There is a small wooded area immediately S of the graveyard. According to the OS Letters, in 1840 the graveyard was 'much used' (O'Flanagan 1931, vol. 1, 34 (89)), however, by 1908 it described as 'the old cemetery, wood-overgrown, but still occasionally used' (Power 1908, 52). Church (TS081-042001-) is centrally placed within a rectangular, stone walled graveyard (dims. 50m NE-SW; 24m NW-SE). Six architectural fragments (TS081-042004- to TS081-042009-) were identified in the graveyard reused as grave-markers, all situated S of the church.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 13 January 2014
References
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.
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.