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Church

Graignagower, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Graignagower, 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
Graignagower
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Bennetts Church
Latest-edition OS map
Teampull na mBeinéad (Site of)
Coordinates
52.25531, -7.71196
SMR number
WA005-026001-

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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

Situated in the S-N valley of the Curraghteskin stream at a point where a smaller SE-NW stream joins it just to the S. It is thought to have been a Chapel-of-Ease to Kilronan (WA001-024001-) by J. O'Donovan c. 1840, when it was known as Bennett's church (O'Flanagan 1929, 51).
The grass-covered remains of the E wall (L 7.3m; max. H 1m) of a church are within a rectangular graveyard (dims. c. 80m E-W; c. 45m N-S), which also contains an old school building and a small number of headstones. The graveyard borders Casltereagh at E and S. A pebble with incised crosses was found in the graveyard (Lucas et al. 1972, 198-9). Archaeological testing (0050589) c. 60m to the SW in Curraghateskin townland failed to produce any related material (Wren 2000b).

Lucas, A. T. (1972) National Museum acquisitions JRSAI 102, 181-239.
O'Flanagan, M. (Compiler) (1929) Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Waterford collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1841. Typescript. Bray.
Wren, J. (2000b) Croughateskin (sic), Ballymacarbry: adjacent to church and graveyard. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 1999: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 292, No. 842. Wordwell. Bray.

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.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 6 December 2010

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