Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Piercefield Or Templeoran, County Westmeath, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.