Templeduff, Graveyard, church in County Offaly

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Situated on a low rock outcrop on the low-lying floodplains of the river Shannon. A small rectangular church (ext. dims. 6.7m N-S; 13.2m E-W; wall T 0.8m) built with roughly coursed rubble limestone with only E end of S wall surviving and wall footings elsewhere. At the W end of the church are the wall footings of a cross wall indicating possible priests room (ext. dims. 6.7m N-S; 5.2m E-W). No architectural features evident. The church is situated within a roughly square shaped area (33m N-S; 34m E-W) enclosed by a bank of earth and stones (Wth. 1.5m; ext. H. 0.5m) which is best preserved at N elsewhere it has been reduced to a scarp. There are rows of upright unmarked stones aligned in N/S rows in the S sector of the enclosure. These are the grave-markers of unbaptised children (OF013-007002-) according to the ITA Survey (1942).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record OF013-007001

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