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Tomb

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Tomb is a tomb (unclassified) in Aghnameadle, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is on the west bank of the Ollatrim River beside a southeast tower house, and a long rectangular church stands nearby with intact east and south walls, a surviving north wall end, west wall footings, a pointed north doorway and a removed south doorway now reused in the MacEgan tomb. The Diocese of Killaloe listed the place in its 1302 ecclesiastical taxation.
Situated on the W bank of the Ollatrim River with a nearby tower house (TN022-035) to the SE. Listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Killaloe in 1302 (CDI, vol. 5, 302). A long rectangular church (TN022-034001) built with roughly coursed rubble of which the E and S walls survive intact with only the E end of the N wall surviving; the wall-footings of the W wall survive. A pointed doorway occupies the E end of the N wall while the main two-centred doorway which was at the W end of the S wall (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 196) was removed and is reused as a doorway for the nearby eighteenth/nineteenth-century MacEgan tomb. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

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