What is recorded here
Modern church on site. No surface remains of medieval church (OF018-003001-) in the graveyard. Church shown in this area on Down Survey (1655-6) map. A Protestant church of 18th-century date now stands on the foundations of an earlier church of which there is no remains. (Comerford 1883, 305)
Test-trenching was carried out as part of the planning schedule by John Purcell under licence No. 05E0093 for a single-house development adjacent to a church and graveyard at Ballycommon, Tullamore. A series of trenches were excavated by mechanical digger at the house site, entrance and percolation area. No features or finds of archaeological significance were revealed.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF018-003002
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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