
What is recorded here
Located towards the top of a N-facing slope. The chancel of the Cathedral (WA040-008002-) is built on the foundations and lower courses of an earlier church of similar dimensions, identifiable through the cyclopian masonry. (Smith 1972, 1-2; O'Keefe 1992, 75)
O’Keefe, T. (1992) Romanesque architecture and sculpture at Ardmore. in C. Nolan, T. P. Power and D. Cowman, (eds), Waterford – history and socitey, 73-104, Geography Publications, Dublin.
Smith, J. T. (1972) Ardmore Cathedral. JRSAI 102, 1-13.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 17 October, 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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