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In grassland atop a low rise of ground with good views in all directions. There is a holy well (TS066-065----) 250m to the NW and a castle (TS066-066----) 370m to the N. A low mound (L 11m; H 0.7m; Wth 4.5m) orienated on a N-S axis c. 20m to SW of cross (TS066-068002-) may represent the remains of a church. According to the OS letters there was an old church here called 'Teampull San Sionáin' and traces of the foundation stones were visible near the cross in the 1840s (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 36). The OS letters record the local belief that 'in the time of a great pestilence which prevailed in the neighbourhood, men drove their cattle to, and themselves took refuge in the field in which the old Church was situated, and in which they believed themselves and the cattle safe from the infection' (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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