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Church

Tooracurragh, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Tooracurragh, County Waterford, 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
Tooracurragh
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Indicated
Coordinates
52.26837, -7.75073
SMR number
WA005-014001-

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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

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

Nearby in the register

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

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