Church (in Ruins) — Ballymurreen

Situated on a low rise of ground with good views in all directions and a nearby castle site (TN048-016) to the E. Described in the Civil Survey 1654-6 as a 'church enclosed by a ditch' (Simington 1931, vol. 1, 371). A poorly preserved nave (ext. dims. 8.96m N-S; 16.7m E-W; wall T 0.8m) and chancel (7.16m N-S; 7.6m E-W) church constructed with roughly coursed limestone rubble. The nave is best preserved with the W gable intact and central portions of the N and S walls surviving to full height. Only the lower courses of the walls of the chancel survive. A round-arched doorway of seventeenth/eighteenth-century appearance is located at the W end of the S wall of the nave. A single-light window in the centre of the W gable is now obscured by ivy. The graveyard (TN048-015001) wall has been recently restored by a local community scheme enclosing eighteenth and nineteenth-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. See attached photographs taken on 11 May 2023 TN048-015----_01Church from NE TN048-015----_02 W gable and S wall of nave - exterior TN048-015----_03 Interior of nave from NE TN048-015----_04 Doorway in S wall of nave - W end - interior Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008