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Church

Farnane Lower, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Farnane Lower, 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
Farnane Lower
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
St. Orans Church (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.17394, -7.75063
SMR number
WA022-014001-

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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

Marked 'St. Oran's Church (in ruins)' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on the S-facing slope of a W-E valley, just E of the NW-SE Farrane stream at the point where it turns E. The overgrown foundations of a rectangular structure (dims. 19.5m NW-SE; 8.5m NE-SW), traditionally associated with a children's burial ground, survive but no enclosure or grave-markers are visible. There is a record of a bullaun stone or stoup that can no longer be found, and a holy well had been obliterated by a change in the course of the stream while a roadway that approached the site had long been removed by the landowner (Power 1986b, 77-8).

Power, Rev. P. (1896b) The ancient ruined churches of Waterford. WAJ. 2, 2-15, 195-298.

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: 23 March, 2011. Compiled by: Michael Moore

Nearby in the register

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

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