Church

The National Monuments Service's description

Located on a gentle N-NE-facing slope. This is an early ecclesiastical site. The church is marked as a rectangular embanked enclosure (ext. dims. c. 40m N-S; c. 25m E-W) within a large subrectangular field (dims. c. 145m NE-SW; c. 120m NW-SE) on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The church is now reduced to a low mound (diam. c. 20m; H c. 0.5m) within an oval grass-covered area (dims. c. 165m N-S; c. 115m E-W) defined by a curved field bank NW-NE, a straightened field bank NE-SE, a low scarp (H 0.5m) and outer berm (Wth 15m) SE-S and a destroyed field bank S-NW. An ogham stone, which has been read as DOMOKI (Macalister 1945, vol. 1, 191), was moved from the central structure c. 1880 to a nearby farmhouse (WA005-012----). (Power 1923; Lyons 1946)

Lyons, P. (1946) Notes - The stone of Formach, JCHAS 51, 85-6.
Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) (reprint 1949) Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Stationery Office, Dublin.
Power, Rev. P (1923) Miscellanea - An early inscribed pillar at Tooracurragh, Co. Waterford. JRSAI 53, 196-7.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 22 October 2010