Site of Uregare Church — Report the wrong picture

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Uregare Church stood in County Limerick until men pulled its walls apart before 1840 to build a graveyard boundary, erasing the building but preserving the dead within the new enclosure. The site belongs to a long chain of names stretching back to 1285, when local holders controlled the land and later suits divided much and little Wrygedy between competing claims. St. Margaret's Well still marks the place where the western church vanished, turning a house of worship into a marker for the buried rather than the living.

Westropp (1904-5, 429-30) recorded the following details about Uregare; 'A parish in Coshmagh. There were two churches (LI039-046001-) here, so closely connected that we combine their records. Urthegedy, held by Gerald f. Maurice, 1285 (C.S.P.I., vol. iii., p. 285); Euergarr and the chapel of Uirgedi, 1291; Urigari, 1302; suit of the Bagots as to Muchil-wrygedy and Lytel-wrygedy, 1317 (Mem. R., vol. ii., m. 47); Urigear, or Viridus dedicated to St. Margaret, 20th July, 1410; Iwyrgarr and Capella Wrygydy, the rectory belonged to the prioress of Teachmolynd, 1418; Ourgare, an entire rectory, 1591; "Owergar, in Patria de Pobble unkaght, aliter ffoxes country, and Iwergerry and Uryverygy," 1586 (Peyton, pp. 11, 248; Map, D. S. (A), 48). The ancient cantred of Iolegar, or Ioregar, lay round it, 1290. Sites - The western church (LI039-046001-), Uregare, was standing in 1826 (Fitzgerald, i., p. 323). It was entirely removed to build the graveyard (LI039-046002-) wall before 1840, and after 1826, when the walls of the old church stood (Fitzgerald, i., p. 323); near it is St. Margaret's Well (LI039-048----). The site of Urigedy lies at some distance to the east in a graveyard, beyond Greenpark, south of the fine old mansion of Ballygrennane Castle (LI040-007----)'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2019

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