Country Ireland Dedication Saint Muicín Floor area 62.5 m² Architectural style Romanesque architecture Material Sandstone | Denomination Church of Ireland Functional status inactive Province Leinster Diocese Diocese of Ossory | |
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Location Sheepstown, Knocktopher, County Kilkenny Previous denomination Pre-Reformation Catholic Address Knocktopher Commons, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland Similar Aghaviller, St Mary's Collegiate Church G, Kells Priory, Jerpoint Abbey, Irish round tower | ||
Sheepstown Church is a medieval church and National Monument in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
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Location
Sheepstown Church is located 1.8 km (1.1 mi) west of Knocktopher, immediately west of Junction 10 of the M9.
History
The church at Sheepstown is dedicated to St Muicín, bishop and confessor (d. 630). The stone church was built during the 12th or 13th century, at a period when the Irish church was moving from a monastic to a diocesan setup.
Church
The church is Hiberno-Romanesque and simple in design. The west doorway has simple bead moulding, as do the four corners of the gables. The door in the south may have led to the sacristy. High in the northwest corner is a corbel called the "clock-stone", perhaps the gnomon of a sundial.
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