What is recorded here

Situated on a slight rise on the flood-plain of the N-S river Slaney, with the stream c. 200m to the W. The Romanesque parish church of Templeshannon (WX020-031001-) is within a D-shaped graveyard (dims. c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by masonry walls with straight walls at the E and S. There is a stoup and a shale bullaun stone (WX020-031006-) in the nave of the church. Archaeological monitoring (21E0592) by Y. Whitty of a watermain pipe c. 15m N of the N angle of the graveyard at the closest point produced no related material (excavations.ie 2022:096). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 31 May, 2012 Amended: 23 December 2022

Romanesque-period Christian burial ground, associated with a medieval parish church; significant as a religious and community site in the medieval landscape.

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