Baptistgrange (Irish Gráinseach Eoin Baiste[1]) is the site of a monastic grange (farm) in County Tipperary, not far from the village of Lisronagh. In the historical sources it is often known as "Achadfada" or "Achfada".[2] It is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.[1]
The grange supplied food and other raw materials to the Augustinian monastery of St John the Baptist, Dublin.[3] The grange church, the remains of which survive, is in the middle of a graveyard. It was associated with a village to the north-west (now deserted) and a castle to the west. The latter is referred to in the Civil Survey (1654-6) as "an old broken stump of a Castle with an old broken Bawne".[4]
After the dissolution of the monasteries during the Reformation, the grange was leased out, being described as a "fortilage or castle, with a hall, etc. 51 acres and 12 cottages, leased in 1541 to the countess of Ormond at £4".[5]
Church
editThe church is divided between the nave and chancel with an unusual triple chancel arch, a series of three arches right across the church interior, but now collapsed. On either side of the former altar, in the north and south side walls, there is a lighting opening. Corbels project from the side walls to the west: these, instead of putlog holes, supported wooden gallery beams.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Gráinseach Eoin Baiste/Baptistgrange". logainm.ie. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ Possibly Irish Achadh Fada – "the long field"
- ^ a b Power P., "Some Old Churches of Decies," The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Seventh Series, Vol. 8, No. 1 (30 Jun. 1938): pp. 55-68
- ^ Simington, R.C. (1931). "The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656". Vol I: County of Tipperary: eastern and southern baronies. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission: p. 193.
- ^ Gwynn, A., & Hadcock, R.N. (1970). Medieval Religious Houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press: p. 216