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Kildanoge, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Kildanoge, 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
Kildanoge
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24189, -7.89064
SMR number
TS091-002001-

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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 steep NW-facing slope in forestry, c. 4m NW of Rian Bó Phádraig (TS091-001----), near a fork in the trackway. The present location is based on a strong local tradition. There are possible traces of a building, including two stones aligned roughly E-W 9m apart, while also in the immediate area are some upright stones and small moss-covered stone piles. In 1984, Holland noted a few courses of dry-stone walling of large uncut sandstone blocks, part of the S wall (H 0.5m; Wth 0.7m); the remainder of the wall being tumbled or overgrown (South Tipperary County Museum Files). The limits of the structure were ascertained to give dimensions of 14m E-W; 6.5m N-S (ibid.). A sandstone pillar with a circular head (H 60cm; diam. 10cm; head diam. 20cm) was found at this location but has since disappeared (ibid.). Power (1908, 19) refers to this as 'Séipéal na nUltach, “The Ulsterman's Chapel”; a small oblong enclosure of dry stone'. Elsewhere, Power (1908, 117) notes that in Co. Waterford, and perhaps Munster generally, Ultach may mean a profesional fortune-teller or 'wise person'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 February 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

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

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