What is recorded here
Kilfithmone Church and graveyard is a graveyard in Kilfithmone (Glenkeen parish), County Tipperary, Ireland. It occupies a low hillock inside the medieval borough, with a nearby tower house to the northwest. The Diocese of Cashel listed it in its 1302 ecclesiastical taxation. The current Church of Ireland church and graveyard date from the nineteenth century and contain nineteenth and twentieth-century headstones, although no earlier church or headstones are visible.
Situated within the medieval borough of Kilfithmone (TN034-107) on a low hillock in an upland area with a nearby tower house (TN034-020) to the NW. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Cashel in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 284). A nineteenth-century C of I church and graveyard containing nineteenth and twentieth-century headstones. No evidence of earlier church (TN034-107001) or headstones. According to the OS Letters the old church was demolished prior to the erection of the present church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 191).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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