Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Killaloan Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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 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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.