What is recorded here
Situated on a NW-facing slope of rising ground overlooking the shores of Lough Derg to the W. Kilbarron church listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as a 'church and chancell in ruin' (Murphy and Ormond 1914,…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN009-003002
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