Templeree
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Templeree

Church ruin in Clonmacnoise, Ireland.

  • AccessNot confirmed
  • National MonumentIn State care
  • 13th-centuryIn the record
  • FolkloreNone recorded
  • PhotoWikimedia Commons
Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly53.32628, -7.98565
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At a glance

  • TypeChurch
  • Date or period mentioned13th-century
  • Recorded sizeext. 7m N-S; 14.3m E-W; wall T 0.8m
  • StatusNational Monument

What to look for

  • East window

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

National Monument No. 81. Rectangular church (ext. dims. 7m N-S; 14.3m E-W; wall T 0.8m) built with coursed rubble limestone located to the SE of the Cathedral (OF005-004001-).

Full archaeological record 201 words

National Monument No. 81. Rectangular church (ext. dims. 7m N-S; 14.3m E-W; wall T 0.8m) built with coursed rubble limestone located to the SE of the Cathedral (OF005-004001-). Double single light E window with round arches surrounded by continuous moulding which belongs to the 13th-century (Leask 1960, vol. 2, 59) while the pointed two centred doorway at the W end of the S wall is a late medieval insertion. Directly over the door there is the original hood moulding similar to the hood moulding over the doorway to the sacristy in the cathedral (OF005-004001-). Single light window in the E end of the S wall has a later medieval head inserted into an earlier thirteenth century window indicated by the different stone dressing between the window jambs and its arch. Second storey or gallery at the W end, only indicated by the post holes for a wooden floor. The projecting corbels at the corners of the church served the same purpose as the antae on the earlier churches (Roof support). (O' Donovan 1856-7, 447; Monahan 1886, 65; Westropp 1907; 287-9; Macalister 1910, 24; O'Flanagan 1933, vol. 1, 62; Molloy 1950, 5-6; Harbison 1972, 204, Langan Vol. 1, 76; Manning 1994, 26-7)

Archaeological Survey of Ireland, National Monuments Service (CC BY 4.0) · Updated 23 May 2011 · Based on the Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly. It describes the site as it was when surveyed.

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