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Tubrid lies between the towns of Cahir and Clogheen in County Tipperary, Ireland. The site at Tubrid encloses an ancient cemetery and two ruins of local historical significance.

Contents 1 Location 2 Tubrid Mortuary Chapel 3 St. John's, Tubrid 4 Sites of Local Interest 4.1 St. Ciaran's Well 4.2 Old Protestant Schoolhouse 4.3 Geoffrey Keating Monument 5 References

[edit] Location

From the village of Ballylooby, take the road towards Cahir. At the first cross-roads (1.5k) turn right and continue for 2.5k. The site is on the left-hand side, just before the bridge.

[edit] Tubrid Mortuary Chapel

The Mortuary Chapel at Tubrid, reportedly built in 1644^[1], in what is now the modern Catholic parish of Ballylooby, is long roofless. The structure shows some evidence of restoration work, notably steel tie-rods securing the gable walls. However, this stabilisation work may be viewed as indicative of the great value vested in it both locally and nationally over many years.^{[citation needed]}

It is of particular historical significance as the burial site of many Counter-Reformation ecclesiastics including Archbishop Brenan of Cashel, Eugene Duhy (O'Duffy) and most notably Geoffrey Keating. ^[2]

Over the entrance door to the chapel is a Latin inscription which translates into English as :^{[3] [4]}

Pray for the souls of Father Eugenius Duhy, Vicar of Tybrud,

and of Geoffrey Keating, D.D., Founders of this Chapel ; and also

for all others, both Priests and Laics whose bodies lie in the same

chapel. In the year of our Lord 1644.

[edit] St. John's, Tubrid

On the same site is the considerably larger 19th Century Protestant church, also now roofless and in a deteriorating condition. Completed in 1820, it functioned as the place of worship for the local Church of Ireland community until 1919, when it was abandoned. [2]At the time of its construction it was within the Church of Ireland Diocese of Waterford and Lismore

The Catholic community eventually built a new church some 2.5k to the north-west, adjacent to which developed the village of Ballylooby.

[edit] Sites of Local Interest

[edit] St. Ciaran's Well

There is a holy well near the site, dedicated to a local Saint named Ciaran, which was in previous times a place of pilgrimage.St. Ciaran is remembered in the name of the church at Ballylooby.

[edit] Old Protestant Schoolhouse

To the front of the site is the former local schoolhous which was completed soon after the construction of St. John's and is in danger of falling into a dilapidated condition.[3]

[edit] Geoffrey Keating Monument

A commemorative monument was erected to the memory of Geoffrey Keating by the local community in 1990 beside the bridge at nearby Burgess, his reputed birth-place.

[edit] References

1. ^ O'Reilly, Edward: Transactions of the Iberno-Celtic Society for 1820. Vol. I-Part. I: 1820: page clxciii: [1]
2. ^ http://http://www.ucc.ie/celt/keat_cunn.html
3. ^ Power, P. :Waterford and Lismore-A Compendious History of the United Dioceses: Cork University Press, Cork, Ireland: 1937
4. ^ p14: Cunningham, B.: The World of Geoffrey Keating- History, Myth and Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Ireland Four Courts Press, Dublin : 2004