Upper Tamlaght-O’Crilly Church of Ireland

There has been a church in this area since ancient times, but it was ruined in 1641 during the Irish rebellion of that year.[1] The present Tamlaght-O’Crilly Church of Ireland Church was rebuilt during 1815 and is located within the Tamlaght-O’Crilly village. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1939-1945 war here.

[1] Irish rebellion of 1641 began during the 23^rd of October of that year in the Province of Ulster. A bloody affair that saw the local Catholic Irish rise against the Protestant settlers from England and Scotland during the Plantation of Ulster, killing around a quarter of the settlers in unstoppable massacres. The rebellion came to its end 8 years later when Oliver Cromwell’s armies landed and defeated and equally massacred the local Irish Catholics.