Church, Garrangibbon, Co. Tipperary

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Church, Garrangibbon, Co. Tipperary

There is a graveyard at Garrangibbon, in County Tipperary, where a church once stood, and the most remarkable thing about it is that the church is entirely invisible.

No wall, no foundation line, no telltale rise in the grass betrays it. Whatever once occupied the site has been absorbed so completely into the hillside that it exists now only in the written record.

The church sat just below the crest of a hill, looking out over South Lodge house to the north-east. By the time the Ordnance Survey investigators were compiling their letters in the 1830s, a process in which local antiquities were noted and described in detail, the building had already vanished. Their observations, later published by O'Flanagan in 1930, suggest the church was gone by 1840. And yet the antiquarian Patrick Power, writing in 1907 and again in 1908, recorded that slight remains were still visible into the early twentieth century, which raises the question of what, exactly, Power saw and when it finally disappeared. Whether those last traces were removed, buried, or simply fell below the threshold of visibility is not recorded.

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