A church layered in 1500 years of history

Thomastown was founded in the 13th century by Thomas FitzAnthony on an earlier settlement called Grennan. FitzAthony was granted these lands by the great Norman knight William Earl Marshall and quickly established a medieval walled town. Thomastown Church is located in the center of the town and within the property’s land is a 19th-century church, the remains of a 13th-century abbey, a 14th-century effigy of a Norman knight, and a 5th-century ogham stone. It has recently been carefully restored into a private residence (so no access is permitted without permission).