Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Clogh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clogh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86001, -7.16699
- SMR number
- KK002-004002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a rise, on the W side of the Cloch River, on the valley floor. According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 189-90), ‘the first church in the present graveyard of Clough was built in the 13th century’, however, he continues to say that no trace of the original church of Clough now remains. The present RC church dates to the 18th century and is roughly centrally placed within an irregularly shaped graveyard (dims. 77m N-S; 137m E-W), though on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map the NE and S boundary are curving. There are many 18th-century headstones within the graveyard, the earliest mentioned by Carrigan (ibid.) dates to 1706. The graveyard has continued to be used and there are a lot of 19th and 20th-century headstones. The graveyard was subsequently extended into a rectangular field to the E.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 September 2015
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.