Ballycahill Fortified Church Door(TN040-015001-)3D Model
Medieval church listed in the ecclesiastical taxation of the Diocese of Cashel in 1302 . The medieval church ruins forms the northern boundary of a rectangular shaped graveyard (TN040-015002) in the village of Ballycahill, Co. Tipperary. A pointed doorway in the southern wall located off centre to the west gives access to the nave with a double-hole box-machicolation over the doorway protecting the church entrance. The box-machicolation or projecting stone box carried on three double stone corbels above the doorway enabled people inside the church to defend the entrance by dropping missiles from above through the opening between the corbels while protected by the surrounding stone box. A machicolation is a floor opening between the supporting corbels of a battlement, through which stones or other material, could be dropped on attackers. A smaller version is called a box-machicolation, as in this example. Corbel is the term used to describe a projection jutting out from a wall to support a structure above it.
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