Grain Church

Artist(s): Thomas Dineley (Draughtsman)

View of a small church and adjoining ruin, variously referred to by the author as Grain Church or Grayne Church. It is shown with an ogee headed south doorway, two windows, and a small cross on the west gable. There are hills in the background. One is marked with the letter R and referred to in the accompanying key as Knock a Graine, now Knockgrean. The drawing is enclosed within an oval border. This is the lost church of Grean. In 1840-41 the compilers of the Ordnance Survey believed it must have lain close to the disused Protestant church, a few hundred metres south-west of Pallasgrean, and south-east of Knockgrean. The presence of a larger building attached to the church may be support for the view expressed by Mervyn Archdall (Monasticon Hibernicum) that here was once a collegiate church at Grean. <div style="padding-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;">Sources: http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/, record no. LI024-072004-. Accessed 25.02.2018. Ordnance Survey Letters. Limerick, ed. Michael Herity (Dublin: Four Masters Press, 2014), pp. 142-143. Ordnance Survey map (1840-41), at http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,575701,643864,11,0. Accessed 25.02.2018. </div>

Inscribed in Image

Caption within boundaries of image – Grain Church.
Text within boundaries of image – R. An hill called Knock a Graine

Image Details

Genre	Landscape
Technique	Pen and ink drawings
Subject(s)	Antiquities and archaeological sites, Architecture, Nature
Geographical Location	Limerick – County Munster – Province Pallasgreen – Village – Location of ruins approximate.
Keyword(s)	Archaeological sites, Buildings, Churches, Hills, Lands, Ruins
Colour	Monochrome
Dimensions	9.1 cm x 6 cm
Published / created	1681

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account	Observations in a Voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland
Contributor(s)	Thomas Dineley — Role: Author of travel text
Print or manuscript	Manuscript
Location of image in copy	p. 118
Source copy	National Library of Ireland MS 392
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1374247854
Rights	Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

From Ballyneclogh to Grayne-Church is a small mile. here is seen a monument belonging to the Mac Briens of Bally Tarsney [p. 118] And another Tombstone underneath the Pulpitt, which I have touched off below marked D. [image: Grain Church] on the other side of Knock Graine, whch signifies hill of the sun being singular good Land as any in Ireland. this adjoines a Town called Pallice remarkeable for a neat mount anciently a Danes Fort & upon which hath bin /also\ anciently a Castle, this is in the hands of Mr James English. From Pallice to Miltown Abbey is two miles. [image of cross] [pp. 117-118]