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On a low rise of ground in undulating pasture. Templeoran House located 600m to SW. Levelled church site (WM032-052----) standing inside a roughly D-shaped burial ground that is depicted as an earthwork on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The levelled church site was located at the N end of a D-shaped enclosure (dims. c. 46m N-S; 35m E-W) which is defined by a low scarp and a post-1700 field boundary which forms the straight side of the enclosure from E-S. No church depicted in Templeoran on the 1654 Down Survey map of the parish of Clonfad (NLI p7384). The Boyd Belvedere Maps of 1818 (WCL/M/BBE/4) located in Westmeath County Library annotates the area around the church (WM033-052----) as ‘Old Burial Ground’.
According to local information human bones are said to have been uncovered when a fosse or ditch on the E side of the enclosure was deepened (SMR File). No evidence of any grave markers inside the enclosure.
See attached word document for aerial photograph of church site and graveyard taken from bing maps at www.bing.com/maps
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 16 July 2013
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