Baptistgrange (

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''Gráinseach Eoin Baiste'') is the site of a monastic grange (farm) in

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, not far from the village of

Lisronagh Lisronagh () is a village in County Tipperary, in Ireland. Location It is one half of the Roman Catholic parish of Powerstown and Lisronagh in the diocese of Waterford and Lismore. It is in the barony of Iffa and Offa East. It is located on the ...

. In the historical sources it is often known as "Achadfada" or "Achfada". It supplied food and other raw materials to the

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monastery of St John the Baptist,

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.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 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 A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

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". After the dissolution of the monasteries during the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

, 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".Gwynn, A., & Hadcock, R.N. (1970). ''Medieval Religious Houses of Ireland''. Dublin. Irish Academic Press: p. 216

Church

The church is divided between the

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

and

chancel In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ove ...

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.

Corbel In architecture, a corbel is a structural piece of stone, wood or metal jutting from a wall to carry a superincumbent weight, a type of bracket. A corbel is a solid piece of material in the wall, whereas a console is a piece applied to the s ...

s project from the side walls to the west: these, instead of

putlog hole Putlog holes or putlock holes are small holes made in the walls of structures to receive the ends of poles (small round logs) or beams, called putlogs or putlocks, to support a scaffolding. Putlog holes may extend through a wall to provide staging ...

s, supported wooden gallery beams.

References

{{reflist Augustinian monasteries in the Republic of Ireland Religion in County Tipperary Ruins in the Republic of Ireland Former populated places in Ireland Archaeological sites in County Tipperary Monasteries dissolved under the Irish Reformation