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Dromineer Bay

Location
(52°56′34″N, 8°17′0″W)
Dromineer Bay
R 81 88
pre-1974 traditional (Republic of Ireland) Tipperary
now Tipperary
medieval not confirmed
  • Tessa Garton

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Description

A ruined church consisting of a long, narrow nave (7.2 m x 18 m). The N wall and the E gable are intact. The W wall remains to c.2-3 m, the S wall to c.0.5 m. Large stones surviving the S wall suggest the remains of a pre-Romanesque church. There is a plain round-headed E window and some reused fragments of Romanesque sculpture in the W doorway, and built into the graveyard wall, along with some loose fragments. One further block of chevron from this site is now located in the grounds of Carrig Parish Church at Ballycommon(Power, 1998).

History

The site is said to have been intended for a foundation of monks from Inishcealtra. The church is listed in the Papal Taxation for 1302 (CDI, 5, 302) and is recorded as 'church and chancel well' in the royal visitation of 1615 (Murphy, 1914, 21).

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Windows

Other

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

Parallels for the chevron carved blocks and beast head ornament may be found at the Nun's church, Clonmacnoise (Offaly). The same chevron design is also found at Inishcealtra.

Bibliography

A. M. Murphy, The Royal Visitation of the Diocese of Killaloe, Archivium Hibernicum, 3, 1914, 210-25.

Gleeson, D.F., Churches in the Deanery of Ormonde, North Munster Archaeological Journal, 6, 1951, 99-100.

J. Farrelly and C. O'Brien(eds), Archaeological Inventory of Co. Tipperary, Vol. 1: North Tipperary, Dublin, 2002, 241-2.

M. Power, Dear Land - Native Place : Monsea and Dromineer a History , Nenagh, 1998, 42-9.