What is recorded here

Graveyard in Ballycommon holds a modern church built above an earlier worship place now vanished from sight. The Down Survey mapped a church there before 1656, and trenching beside the grave yard found no preserved feature worth recording. What remains is a living boundary between forgotten devotion and the present town.

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. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of revision: 22 April 2009

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