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Church

Killaloan Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Killaloan Lower, 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
Killaloan Lower
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.36049, -7.62693
SMR number
TS083-012----

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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 S-facing gentle slope, with River Suir c. 200m to S, in undulating pasture. Mentioned in Papal Chancery documents in 1210 and 1260 as 'Kilholouan' and 'Killoluwam' respectively, in the Papal Tax records in c. 1306 as 'Kildolowan' and in the Calendar of Papal Registers in 1497 as 'Kylolohan' (Ó Cearbhaill 2007, 211). The medieval church is mentioned in the Civil Survey of 1654-6 as 'a little Church unroofed' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 283). The church itself is on the S side of a square-shaped graveyard (TS83-012001-). There is a large, derelict and roofless C of I church 4.5m N of the medieval church, described as 'a new Church' in the OS Letters, c. 1840 (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 147). The medieval church is rectangular (int. dims. 4.8m N-S; max. surviving length 14.7m E-W; wall T 0.9m; H above int. 1.7-1.8m N and S wall respectively) constructed of sandstone and limestone rubble, roughly coursed. It is badly overgrown with ivy leaving little masonry visible. The quoins at the NE angle have collapsed, and the E wall does not survive but is delineated by a low rubble line (H 0.8m) from its collasped masonry. The W wall is completely destroyed, with no trace of its original position. A single-light window at the E end of the S wall has sandstone surrounds, though only three lower W jambs with an external chamfer survive. According to the OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 146) there was an E window with sandstone surrounds, though its form could not be discerned due to heavy ivy growth.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1931 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol I: county of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.

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.

Ó Cearbhaill, P. 2007 Logainmneacha na hÉireann II: Cill i logainmneacha Co. Thiobraid Árann. The Stationery Office. Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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