Feigh West Old Church
Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0
Church

Feigh West Old Church

Church ruin in Feigh West.

  • AccessNot confirmed
  • National MonumentNot recorded
  • DateNot stated
  • FolkloreNone recorded
  • PhotoWikimedia Commons
Feigh,Feigh West, Co. Tipperary53.03805, -8.09301
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At a glance

  • TypeChurch
  • Recorded sizeext. 7.5m N-S; 19m E-W; wall T 0.75m
  • Condition (as surveyed)Survives well

What to look for

  • Graveyard

Picked out from the Archaeological Survey description below.

Can you visit?

  • No source says it is open to the public.Most monuments in Ireland stand on private farmland.
  • Ask the landowner before crossing fields, close gates, leave the stones as you find them.Visiting responsibly
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History and description

Situated on a natural hillock in undulating countryside. The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular church (ext. dims. 7.5m N-S; 19m E-W; wall T 0.75m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble.

Full archaeological record 138 words

Situated on a natural hillock in undulating countryside. The poorly preserved remains of a rectangular church (ext. dims. 7.5m N-S; 19m E-W; wall T 0.75m) built with roughly coursed limestone rubble. Only the W gable survives intact with portions of the N and S walls along with the lower courses of the E wall. A possible door is located at the W end of the N wall with an ivy-covered single-light ogee-headed window in the W gable. A possible ecclesiastical enclosure (TN027-028002) is indicated by a townland boundary to the N of the church. The curving line is visible from the air (CUCAP, AVN 76) but is not visible at ground level. The enclosing graveyard (TN007-028003) contains eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth-century headstones with a nineteenth-century C of I place of worship in the E sector of the graveyard.

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Updated 22 September 2008 · Based on the The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

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