Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Ballymacadam West, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymacadam West
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Ballymacadam Ch. (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ballymacadam Church (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.36167, -7.89021
- SMR number
- TS082-008----
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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 break of a N-facing slope, incorporated in farm buildings. According to Power (1908, 22) this church was a dependency of the Augustinian Abbey at Cahir (TS075-048002-). Rectangular church (dims. 8.2m x 18m; E wall is 1m T; N wall is 0.9m T; S wall is 0.8m T) in a largely disused farmyard. The church has been converted into a barn, the walls lowered (H 3.3m), the W gable rebuilt above 1m of the original wall and the building re-roofed with corrugated iron. There is a high base-batter (H 1.45-2m x W 0.12-0.2m). Some rough boulders used at the foundation which project out beyond the line of the wall and bedrock at the SW angle formed foundation for the W gable. A farm building abutts the church at the W end of the S side. A large doorway has been inserted in the S wall. The original stonework, apart from some cut limestone quoins, has been rendered externally with concrete and a cement floor laid internally. The S wall W of the inserted doorway is also rendered with concrete. There is a watertank at the E end of the S wall, in a concrete casing. The E gable (H c. 6m) has a centrally-placed, pointed, two-light narrow window with a limestone mullion. At the E end of the N wall there is a single-light window whose original head is missing. W of centre in the N wall a rectangular opening has been inserted (H 1.55m; W 1.08m) with crude limestone surrounds. At the W end of the N wall there is an inserted single-light window. A flat-headed single-light window has been inserted roughly central in the W gable, 2.5m above ext. ground level with surrounds of crude limestone blocks. There is an aumbry at the E end of the S wall, 1.2m above int. ground level and 0.37m from the E gable, and a possible blocked opening (H c. 0.9m; Wth 0.85m) 0.76m W of the aumbry and 1.53m above int. floor level.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 20 January 2014
References
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
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
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