Kilmore Church (in Ruins), Grave Yd.

Situated on a natural rise of ground in undulating countryside. A rectangular church (ext. dims. 9.25m N-S; 17.45m E-W; wall T 0.9m) of late eighteenth-century appearance built with roughly coursed sandstone rubble. It has round-arched windows in the N and S walls with a high round-arched doorway in the W gable. A nineteenth-century mortuary vault in the NE angle of the church has the date 1796 carved on the SE quoin stone. The church is situated in a large rectangular-shaped graveyard (TN026-041002) containing nineteenth and twentieth-century headstones. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008