Latteragh Church (in Ruins), Grave Yard

Situated on a low hillock in a mountainous region with a nearby early medieval castle (TN028-025001) to the W. A monastery was founded here by Odran in the sixth century (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 40). The death of Gilla Brénainn Ua Léimíne, erenagh of Leitir Odráin is in the Annals of Innisfallen under the year AD 1074. The site is listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). The Royal Visitation of 1615 described the building as ' church and chancell well' (Murphy 1914, 220). The poorly preserved remains of an early medieval nave and chancel church (TN028-025002), the nave of which is now destroyed with the chancel being reused in the late medieval period. A fragment of the E window lies in the church interior. A destroyed late medieval W doorway is located where the original chancel arch existed. It is described in the OS Letters as a two-centred doorway (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 192). Several architectural fragments have been reused as headstones in the enclosing graveyard. Four Early Christian cross-inscribed slabs (TN028-025004), now housed in the Nenagh Heritage Centre, were recovered from graveyard during the digging of a grave in 1977 (Kelly 1988, 92-100). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

Early medieval Christian burial ground associated with a sixth-century monastery; significant for its historical link to Saint Odran and the broader ecclesiastical landscape of early Ireland.