Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Church
Townparks (st. Peter'S Par.) (part of ), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (st. Peter'S Par.) (part of )
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- St. Peters Chruch (in ruins)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Church (Site of)
- Coordinates
- 52.33608, -6.46239
- SMR number
- WX037-032016-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The parish church of St Peter is outside the town wall. According to a Visitation by Thomas Ram, the Protestant bishop of Ferns, in 1615 David Browne was the curate and the church and chancel were in repair (Hore 1900-11, vol. 6, 267). It was described as recently destroyed by Synott writing c. 1680 (Hore 1862, 66) and it is marked as a building (dim. c. 20m E-W) described as in ruins on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map within a graveyard (dims c. 50m E-W; c. 40m N-S) that is now St Peter's Square. The foundations were extant in a neglected graveyard in the 1890s (Cullen 1895, 376), but now there are no visible remains of the church or graveyard at ground level.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload/revision: 19 December, 2012
Amended: 2 Sep. 2013
References
Cullen, J.B. 1895 The ancient chruches of the town of Wexford, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 25, 369-77.
Hore, H. F. 1862 An account of the barony of Forth, in the county of Wexford, writtten at the close of the seventeenth century. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 7, 53-84.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.