Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Castlemarket, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlemarket
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.85093, -7.32978
- SMR number
- KK001-005002-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In flat terrain in generally undulating terrain. Steam downslope c. 50m to the N. A public road runs outside the N and E side of the graveyard and a laneway runs along the western boundary. A roughly sub-rectangular graveyard (dims. 46m NW-SE; 60m NE-SW) with a 13th-century church (KK001-005001-) located in the NE angle. The ground S of the church is significantly raised as a result of continuous burials over many centuries. The graveyard boundary is formed by a wall to the N, E and S and by a hedge on the W side. There is an entrance gate in the E wall and a stile at the S end of the E wall. A 17th-century plaque (KK001-005003-) commemorates the restoration of the church in 1646, though it appears to have been destroyed four years later by Cromwellian forces. The church was extensively reconstructed by FÁS between 1984-7. In 2005-06 the boundary wall of the graveyard was rebuilt and repaired and landscaping work around the church was carried out. The majority of the headstones within the church and in the graveyard date to the 18th century. The most recent headstone bears the date 2013.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 8 June 2016
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.