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Church

Piercefield Or Templeoran, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Church, Piercefield Or Templeoran, County Westmeath, 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
Piercefield Or Templeoran
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Templeoran Church
Latest-edition OS map
Templeoran Church (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.58017, -7.46220
SMR number
WM011-099----

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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)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map and annotated as ‘Templeoran Church’ where it is depicted standing in the centre of a circular shaped graveyard or ‘Burying Ground’ (WM011-099001-). The poorly preserved ivy-covered building (approx. dims. 17m E-W; 7m N-S) is aligned ENE-WSW. The only visible section of the walls are the W gable and the grass-covered wall footings of the SW angle of the church. Part of the WSW wall survives to a height of 2.5m. No architectural features or cut stones visible. The circular shaped graveyard boundary may follow the line of an Early Christian ecclesiastical enclosure (WM011-099002-).

Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 25 August 2017

Nearby in the register

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

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