Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Glebe, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Templenaplague or St. Nicholass Ch. (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Ch. (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.34891, -7.70364
- SMR number
- TS083-020----
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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
St. Nicholas' church is situated S of the medieval town of Clonmel (TS083-019----), across the River Suir, in open ground on a gentle W-facing slope between St. Nicholas' Lane to the N and Whitening Stream to the S and W, in the Old Bridge quarter of the town. The church is located in the NW quadrant of a sub-rectangular graveyard (TS083-020001-). The popular name for the church is Tempull na Plaighe, the church of the plague, due to the large numbers of plague victims who were buried here from the 14th to the 17th century (Lee 1966, 12-26). The church was in use as late as 1669 and was one of only two churches used for Catholic worship in Clonmel in the post-Restoration period (Lyons 1952, 28). This small church (int. dims. 7.85m x 4.47m; wall T 0.9m) is constructed of randomly coursed sandstone rubble. It was badly overgrown at time of inspection, with graffiti and evidence of burning on the internal W gable. The church was entered through a pointed doorway at the W end of the N wall. There are two single-light windows, one in the W gable and a larger example in the E. There are two small aumbrys, one in the NW angle, the other S of the E window. The W gable, which is surmounted by an ivy-clad bellcote, is in a precarious condition. Lyons (1952, 25) noted the remains of an apparently modern building at the SE angle of the church, co-terminous with the glebe boundary, and suggested it was on the site of a conventual domestic building. This is no longer visible. (Farrelly and FitzPatrick 1993, 66-7).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 20 January 2015
References
Lyons, P. 1952 Church of St. Nicholas and its precincts. Journal of the Clonmel Historical and Archaeological Society, 23-9.
Farrelly, J. and FitzPatrick, E. 1993 Urban archaeological survey - county Tipperary (South Riding) (2 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Lee, G.A. 1966 The leper hospitals of Munster. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 10, 12-26.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Weir - regulatingunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Middenunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.