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Sheepstown : Church

CountyKilkenny
Grid RefS 515 373
GPSS 51458 37281 (7m)
Longitude7° 14' 32.82" W
Latitude52° 29' 4.59" N
Nearest TownInistioge (12 Km)
OS Sheet67
UTM zone29U
UTM x619344.77017243
UTM y5816392.1877703
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Visit Notes

Sunday, 7th August 2005

These ruins are rather sad to be honest. For a twelth century church there is very little decoration. The corners of the building are beaded, as is the door, but that's about it. There is a narrow door in the south wall and a pointed window. The west window is very plain, too.

On the northwest corner there is a single corbel referred to on the sign as the 'clock stone'. Inside the church in the same corner is a small decortaed section of stone that show the bottom half of what were presumably birds facing each other.

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