churches historical tipperary

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...

Ballyporeen in whose cruciform church (1828) a Michael Reagan, great-grandfather of USA President Ronald Reagan , was baptised on 3 September 1829. a handsome parish publication traces roots.

A pub flourishes the President's name - beside the owner's name in gold lettering over a Victorian corner door. Templetenny Cemetery, burial place of the Reagans , is worth a visit....

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 Catholic Church has inside the gate an octagonal stone font with two sections .

The Celtic Cross was erected in the grounds in 1870 in memory of Fr Nicholas sheehy, one of the five people hanged in Clonmel in 1776 on perjured evidence for an alleged murder.

The shaft in the mode of the early Christian high crosses, bears a wide range of religious cum nationalist themes including the Good Samaritan , and Daniel O'Connell with the Catholic Emancipation Act. St Patrick...

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

A delightful romanesque doorway is the main feature of this small rural church where many of the Butlers of Kilcash are interred....

Dominican Priory:
Founded around 1269 by Walter de Burgo, Earl of Ulster, for the Dominicans. The church has a nave and chancel of almost equal width, with the remains of a five-light east window. The north and south walls have a number of lancet windows, and there is a good doorway in the north wall. The door in the west gable was mutilated when the Catholic church was built near it in 1812, and an angel and heads from the priory were built into the west wall of the Catholic ch...

Holy Cross Church of Ireland church , has a three faced clock on the embattlemented tower and fine stone mullioned windows in the nave and chancel.

The major and exciting restoration of the church of the former Cistercian foundation at Holy Cross, for use as a parish church, was completed in 1975 . It houses two relics of the True Cross.

The restored building and attendant religious ceremonies attract enormous crowds. Its architectural brilliance - groined ceiling,...

Designed by John Nash and completed in 1817, at a cost of IR2,307, the church is a delightful Gothic Revival building. One of only two known Nash designed churches to have survived.

There is a very fine interior with superb plasterwork, stained glass and a vast array of wall plaques. Well worth a visit…...

Unlike most, Ballycahill's T shaped church has retained its old communion rail - fashioned in timber as are the gilded altar and figures of the four evangelists. An ancient sandstoe baptismal font, with two-compartmented octagonal bowl on a fluted column, is still used....