Church in Holycross, County Tipperary

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Situated on a gradual SE-facing slope in gently undulating terrain, under tillage. The earlier placename for the village was Ceall Uachta Lawyne or Lamund meaning 'the upper church (or small) church (in the territory) of Lamund' (Stevens 2001). Two widely spaced curving cropmarks were identified on an aerial photograph (ASIAP 43 (10-17) 11/8/96) immediately E of the disused nineteenth-century C of I church at the northern end of the village. These presumably formed the bivallate enclosing element of a large circular or oval enclosure (TN047-110001). It is possible that these originally surrounded an Early Christian church or monastic site, no trace of which survives above ground. The SE portion of the enclosure has been built over and possibly destroyed by the Sue Ryder complex and a playing field behind the present school. In 2000 archaeological excavation at the Church of Ireland building by Paul Stevens revealed no archaeological features. Carried out under licence No. 00E0634 (Bennett 2002, 321-2). Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TN047-110002

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