Graveyard

The National Monuments Service's description

On a low hill in undulating pasture. A medieval parish church (KK005-011001-) is located in the NE sector. A sub-triangular graveyard (dims. 48.6m E-W x 52.6m N-S), which overlies an earlier enclosure (KK005-011003-), is enclosed by an earth and stone bank (max. ext. H 1.10m; max. int. H 0.9m; Wth 2m including slip) which is best preserved from N-E and SW-W. By the 19th-century, as recorded in the OS Letters (1839), (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 26), the graveyard was in use as a private burial ground for the Brenan family of Bagnellstown (formerly Eden Hall). The headstones and two table tombs date from the mid-19th century. There is a local tradition that famine victims and unbaptised children were buried here, though there are grave-markers.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 April 2017

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.