What is recorded here
St. Burchins Church stands on the highest point of a subrectangular graveyard in County Tipperary, with tombstones marking deaths from 1772 to the twentieth century. The natural hill lifts the eighteenth-century Protestant church above undulating terrain, giving the dead a visible ridge rather than a hidden ditch. People may have called it ancient before any stone survived, but the surviving markers prove only that burial continued long after the church was built.
Located on a natural hill in undulating hilly terrain. An eighteenth-century Protestant church situated on the highest point in a subrectangular graveyard . Tombstones date from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the earliest noted being 1772. No earlier features evident in the graveyard although it is referred to in OS Letters as 'ancient Churchyard' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 2, 80-81).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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