churches historical around tipperary

This 13th century church stands on an island in the middle of a bog where St. Ruadhan of Lorrha founded a monastery in the 6th century. The church, which may incorporate parts of an older church, has a nave and chancel with lancet windows, and a decorative piscina.

The west wall of some (15th century) domestic buildings remain. In 1980, a valuable hoard of religious vessels, including a chalice, a paten and a ladle were discovered in the vicinity of the church; these are now in the Na...

Little is known of the history of this church other than that it was dedicated to St. Farannan. The saint exiled himself from here to the Continent where he died at Waser on the Meuse in 982. the church consists of a nave and chancel, with finely ornamented west doorway and chancel arch.
,br> The door has good Romanesque decoration, a hood above it, and is said to have contained a tympanum with a cat with two tails (probably a lion). Above the chancel arch, which has well-preserved capi...

Two churches still standing on an old monastic site founded by St.. Mochoemog who died in 655. The smaller church is the older of the two, though its date is unknown. The west doorway and the east window have been restored, but the door was probably flat-headed. The church has antae. The larger church was begun in the 12th century, but this church was later considerably altered.

The north and east walls of the chancel are the oldest parts of the present church, and they formed part...

It was probably founded by St. Cainneach of Aghaboe, Co. Laois (q.v.) in the 6th century, though it is also associated with St. Cronan of Roscrea . the deaths of abbots are recorded for the years 807, 1120, 1138 and 1143, and the monastery seems to have experienced a revival in the 12th century.

Giraldus Cambrensis, the historian of the Norman invasion, describes the place as an island where no woman or animal of the female sex could enter without dying immediately. the monastery be...

Donough Cairbreach O'Brien, King of Thomond, founded a friary for the Franciscans here early in the 13th century, but the present church was probably not begun until 1471, only to be burned the following year. After the Suppression in 1541, it was sold to John of Desmond. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's horsemen burned the church once more in 1569, and the friars who had stayed on were massacred in 1570. It suffered little damage when police tried to blow it up in 1921. The church is a simple nave-a...

A ringfort with three concentric banks which may have been a meeting place and the site of an ancient fair. Two massive stones which once formed the gates of entry to the fort are lying in a field outside the north-eastern part of the fort.

In the interior of the fort is a simple 15th century church, choked in undergrowth, and possibly built by the O'Kennedys....

A number of wells rise up at this eerie spot where one could imagine that people in times past could have wondered at the primeval power of nature. St. Patrick is said to have visited the place, and the water is said to cure 'sore lips, sore eyes, the scrofula and several other chronic diseases'.

In the middle of a pond is an early cross, and beside it is a church which was built on the site of a 12th century edifice, but which in its present mutilated form dates probably from the 16...

St. Alban founded the first monastery here around 650, but the site is named after his successor, St. Beccan. A 12th century Romanesque church has a flat-headed doorway, and two unusual decorated windows.

A number of crosses and Early Christian cross-slabs are either standing free around the church or have been built into its interior or exterior walls....

The Parish Church occupies the site of churches dating back to the original foundation by St. Ailbe, who died in 527AD....

The 19th century church stands on the site of the Cistercian Abbey of Inishlounaght which was founded by Donal Mor O'Brien, King of Limerick, in 1187 and whither a fresh colony of Cistercians were brought from Furness in Lancashire in 1238. some interesting fragments of the older church are preserved in the modern church.

Particularly noteworthy is the transitional doorway of about 1200 which is now high up in the west wall of the church and which was probably the processional doorway...