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Rathmoylan, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Rathmoylan, 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
Rathmoylan
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Church in ruins
Latest-edition OS map
Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.14242, -7.03531
SMR number
WA027-041001-

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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)
  • 1869 · 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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a bluff overlooking an E-W stream c. 60m to the N. The parish church of Rathmoylan was a rectory of the Benedictine monastery of St John the Evangelist, Waterford (WA009-005030-) in 1536 (Nolan 1984, 50). The present structure within a neglected rectangular graveyard (dims. 45m E-W; c. 35m N-S) is not medieval, although it is marked as a ruin on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. The church is a rectangular building (ext. dims. 16.1m E-W; 7.35m N-S) surviving almost complete with a doorway towards the W end of the N wall, two pointed windows in the S wall, one in the N wall and one in the E gable. The remains of an older wall may lie beneath the S wall (Gittins 1990). Toberquan (WA027-040----), a natural spring, is c. 280m to the NW, while the site of a field system (WA027-039004-) and associated features is in the fields to the N, W and E. A pot quern found at the site is at a nearby house. (Power 1890-1, 477; Mulholland 1980, 44)

Gittins, A. (1990) Investigation of Rathmoylan church, Co. Waterford, Decies, No. 43, 5-11.
Mullholland, J. (1980) A checklist of Church of Ireland places of worship in County Waterford, Decies, No. 14, 43-9.
Nolan, T. (1984) Listing of Monastic possessions in Waterford, c. 1540. Decies, No. 26, 45-51.
Power, Rev. P. (1890-91) The ancient ruined churches of Co. Warterford. JRSAI 20-21, 475-82.

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: 10 June 2011

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

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